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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 372991, member: 6986&quot;]The US Government Printing Office is the official publisher of the US government.&nbsp; At one time the GPO issued checks for refunds for overpaymnets or where the publication was no longer available.&nbsp; Here is an example of a GPO check from the early 1900s.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/GPO.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>After WWII it became cumbersome to write checks for refunds.&nbsp; In the late 1940s, the GPO began issuing coupons for refunds.&nbsp; The coupons carried dates and serial numbers.&nbsp; There are even color varieties within some years.&nbsp; Here are two different coupons from 1955 -- one with red lettering and one with black.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/1955.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Initially they only issued 5 cent coupons.&nbsp; Eventually, they issued 25 and 50 cent coupons.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j83/mufelika/50-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As best I can tell, they stopped issuing the coupons in the mid-1970s.&nbsp; The latest date I have seen is 1974.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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