Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-24
Post Office Information.

Post Office Information.
We CLEAN from Holbrook's United State
Mail the following items, which may prov
beneficial to many of our readers:
Tho address Of letters intended for delive
~ in cities, especially, should include, i
possible, the occupation, street and number
of the party addressed.
If the writer of letter wishes his lettel
to reach its destination without being subjec
to the rules of distribution requiring it to bt
remailed at . distribution Office, he has only
to write upon the outside small direct" anG
the wrapper will not be removed until il
reaches the Office for which the letter is de
signed.
1t is violation of law to enclose letter
or other thing, or to make any memorandum
IN writing, or to print any words or commu-
nication, after its publication, upon any
newspaper, pamphlet, magazine, or other
printed matter. The persons addressed must
pay letter postage, or the sender be fined
five dollars.
On calling or sending for a letter known to
have been advertised, the fact should always
be stated, otherwise only the current letters
are examined.
A printed business card, or the name Of
the sender, placed on the outside of circu-
lar, subjects it to letter postage.
A singular notion seems long to have pre-
vailed, that it is no violation of law to send
an unsealed letter outside of the mail. This
makes no difference whatever Even if the
paper written upon is not folded, it is let
ter.
Money and other valuables sent in the mail
are at the risk of the owner; but if they DE
lost the Department will make every effort in
its power to discover the cause, and, if there
has been theft, to punish the offender.
Letters can be registered on the payment
of the registry fee of five cents for each let
ter, but if lost, Congress has made no pro-
vision for restitution, if tho letter contains
valuables.
Postmasters are forbidden to suffer news
papers to be read in their Offices by persons
to whom they are not addressed, or to lend
them out in any case, without permission Of
the owner.
A letter bearing stamp cut or separated
from an envelope, cannot be sent through the
mail. Stamps cut or separated from stamp
ed envelopes lose their legal value.
Using a postage stamp after it has been
used once, subjects the offender to fifty dol
lars fine.
Letters contained in Government envcl-
opes," with the stamp printed thereon, can
60 in or out of the mail by any persons or
conveyance. But it must be clearly address
ed in ink, and the date of sending written
thereon.
A letter on which the writer has endors-
ed his or her name and place of residence,
without direction as to time of remaining
uncalled for, will be returned by mail to such
writer after the expiration of thirty days.
Whenever the time for holding the letter is
mentioned in the endorsement, such time
will be observed No additional postage is
chargable for returning letters.
Any word or communication, whether by
printing, writing, marks, or signs, upon the
cover or wrapper of newspaper, pamphlet,
magazine, or other printed matter, other than
the name and address of the person to when
it is to be sent, subjects the package to letter
postage. .-......
Where packages of newspapers or period
icals are received at any post-offce directed
to one address, and names of the club Of
subscribers to which they belong, with the
postage for a quarter in advance shall be
handed to the Postmaster, be shall deliver
the same to their respective owners. But
this does not apply to weekly newspapers
which circulate free in the county where
printed and published. .s4 -....
OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT OF NoRTHERNERs