Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-08

N0vetlnR Win beauty
Vale and mountain hight.
Never summer blossoms
Dwelt 50 fair a. these;
Never lay like glory
On the 6elds and trees.
Rare the airy wreathing
Deity turned the scroll,
bun2 In woodland arches
Growing meadow knoll.
Forest, chastest fancies,
sotive art, may be,
winters scuiptors rear to
Summers memory.
RECENT RULINGS ~ TmE PosT.
MASTER GENERAL.
Railroad companies have the legal
right TO carry invoices Of goods shipped
TO themselves for their own use upon
their trains. In general they have the
right 70 transport communications in
regard 20 the business Of their own
roads.
A postmaster cannot refuse to sell a
money order except to lottery compan-
les, or to firms advertissd as frauds in
the Postal Guide, or to sell an order
made payable to their order or order of
q person described a. their agent in the
order.
A person to be eligible to the Office of
postmaster must be twenty lone years
old.
After q short paid package has been
taken from postmaster (the amount
due thereon having been paid) and
opened, the department cannot order
the amount 20 paid to be refunded.
Such package should be allowed to re-
main in the postofiios without payment,
and permission asked for the party 10
open the same in the presence of the
postmaster. When the permission is
given. II upon examination it is found
to contain no writing Of a personal
character or forbidden by law, the addi-
tional charge may 10 RENTED. This
same rule applies when such packages
are offered for delivery by q carrier.
After q package has been received from
q carrier and opened by the person ad-
dressed, such person can not be relieved
from paying the postage marked as due.
The proper course 10 pursue in such
cases Ia to refuse the package and let
the carrier return 1t to the postmaster.
The addressed should then write to the
First Assistant Postmaster General,
Div. p. l.. d. f., for permission to have
the paokage opened in the presence of
the postmaster a. stated above.
Postage stamps 90 placed upon an
envelope as not to expose the entire
surface of the stamp should not be ac-
oopted for postage, al in case Of three
One-Oent stamps placed one over the
<~kh m tn lO <s.l
portion of the two stamps first placed
thereon, such letter should be treated
40 ono prepaid by a one-cent stamp
only.
Letters which relate TO the cargo car
ried on board any vessel may bo deliv-
cred with the cargo at any point with
out the payment of postage. This may
he done although the steamer is under
contract to carry the mail ,And the point
| of delivery il not a postOffice. Letters
which do not relate to the cargo must
be inclosed in stamped envelopes Of a
denomination sufficient TO cover the
postage that would be char9eable there
on il they we're sent by mail, provided
the envelope il duly directed and prop
eriy sealed, % that the letter cannot bo
taken thsrefr0m without defacing the
envelope, and the date of the letter or
tho transmission or receipt thereof il
written Or stamped on tho envelope.
Where il is dssirsd that the master or
officer of q steamer should deliver let
ters along his route they may be enclOs-
cd in Government stamped envelope
as above stated, and this envelope rein
closed in an ordinary envelope address
cd to the master or officer Of the steam
er at the point of departure, postage be-
ing paid thereon; and the master or
officer can deliver such stamped envel-
ope at any point at which his weasel may
touch.
Postmasters must not urge their pa
irons to rent boxes.
The policy Of the Postofiice Depart.
ment is to secure p0stmasters who will
at least keep building used for official
purposes free from all charges and all
claims against the premises. The de-
partment will not sustain any postmas-
ter in attempting TO evade the payment
of rent upon premises 90 occupied
through the use Of his official position.
When international money orders are
sent 70 an international money order
ofice, with directions TO forward the
money Tor the same, the psyee reading
at the place whore there Ia no money
order ofiioe, the postmaster at such in
terpati0nal money order office should
inclose the amount in penalty envel-
ope (duly rcgistered) to the party en-
titled to receive the Same without charg-
ing the usual registry fee.
When postmaster has two patrons
Of his Office Of the same name, it would
be his duty 70 try and satisfy himself to
which one letter belonged and deliver
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| the office from whence is came II it is
possible 10 dotermine this. The parties
could obviata the difficulty by having
their mail delivered 70 a box number OF
| in care of some one in the place. II the
should return it 70 tho writer il there is
card upon the envelope requesting him
90 to do; If there 10 no such request he
should forward it to the Dead Letter
Office
The department. recognizes tho fact
that packages too large for delivery BY
carrier may be received at post0fiices,
and therefore furnishes printed notices
to BE- sent By poetmasteEs TO addresses
| in such oases, to call st the postofiice
for them. II 10 inpracticable. however,
| for the department to define the exact
dimensions or weight Of = package too
heavy for delivery By carriers." T'hia
must b left to tho sound discre ton Of
the postmaster, to he determined BY the
mail Of the carrier. the distance to his
route, etc. There arc at almost every
office light deliveries during the day
whom carriers might take out packages
Of considerable sise without great hard
ship.
A printed letter which does not bear
| internal evidence that it 10 being aeni
TO several persons In identical terms,
bat hal q printed address 10 . single
perapn il, when ssnt 70 that person,
subject 10 letter rates.
IL il strange how appropriate names
sometimes are. In case lAtely before
tho Lord Mayor Of London, 4r. Piaeon
had borrowed til0. and in . year paid
for it $635. hut tbs lsndsr wanted
500 more. Was sver Pigeon bettsE
plocksd7
"Why do they cry % much, par aaksd
| the Auntin editors little boy at the the