The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-21
PORTLAND POST-OFFICE.
OFFICE HOURS.

Cashiers Office, Sundays excepted 7.3o a.
nj. to 100 p. M; Money order department a;
m. to 800 p. M Registry department, 300
| a. IN. to 600 pm.
a. m. to 100 p. M Sunday 300 to 1000 a. m.
| Carriers Deliveries, Sundays excepted)-In
business section of the city between High and In
da streets, at 100 and 9,lo a. m. y 20 m, l30,
| 1.3O D. m. Sunday delivery at Post
ONCE window, 900 to 1000 q; m. Collections
aSm street Re- s Sunday g goo p only a 400
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston, Southern and Western, intermediate
offices and connections via Boston Maine
| railroad, Eastern diyisiOn) Arrive at 1870,
| 5, and 11.30 p. M; close a: M and 100
M, 5.15 and 9.15 p. M; Sunday, arrive 1.25
| p. M; close $50 and OLD p. M
Boston, Southern and Weste'Te, and inter,
mediate offices and connections, via Boston ana
| Maine railroad (Western diyision) ARRIVE at
1870 and $50 p. M; close 500 a. M, and
| 2.A5 p. m.
Eastern, via Maine Central Railroad-Arriye
a. M and LOO p. M; close 1890 and 9.lo
| p. m.
| via Maine Central railroad-Arrive at 200 and
| 900 a. M, LOO and 600 p. m; close at 6l5 a.
! M, 1890, 4.15 and 9.15 p. m.
| Pennington, intermediate Offices and connec-
| tions via Maine Central Authoritative at
| LOO and 6.15 p. H.; close at 7.45 a. M, and
| 12.3Op m.
| Rockaa,ad, intermediate offices and connections
| via Knox and Lincoln railroad-Arrtve LOO
| and p. M; close at Clio a. m and IL m.
| SkoarEegd, intermediate offices and connec-
| tons, via Maine Central Authoritative at
| LOO p M; close at 1890 pm.
Aubaogs and Lewiston-Arrive 200 and 800
a. m and 1 90 and 81 p. M; close SAB ana
| 7.45 a. H., 1890 Alb and 9.15 p. m.
| Boragor-Arriye 200 a, M. LOO and p. NJ;
close ate. 10 a. nl., 1870 and 9.15 p m.
/ Biddeford and Saco-Arrive at 10. 80 and $50
| p. M; close at 600, 500 a. M and 100 M,
2.45 and 5.15 p m.
| connections, via Grand Trunk Railway-Ar-
rive at II. 80 p. M; close at 6.45 a. m. and 100
! p. m.
Gorhdns, N. II, intermediate offices and con-
neetions, via Grand Trunk railroad-Arrlye at
$40 a. m. and 1890 p. M; close at 6.45 a. M,
LOO and 4.30 p. m.
sata,,ton. IT., intermediate offices and con-
| nections, via Mountain Division NJ. O. H. h
| Arrive at S.35 p. M; close at 500 a. m.
| Bartlett, N. H. intermediate offices and con-
| nectiOns via Mountain Division M. c. r. r.
| Arrive at 9.CO a. m. and 8.35 p. M; close at
| 500 a. m. and 2.45 p. m.
Duck Pond, Pride's Corner, Windhan'. No.
/ EindhdDo, Raymond and South CdSco-Arr1ve
/ at 1900 M; close at 1.45 p. m.
! Rochester, NJ H, intermediate Offices and con-
| nectionS, via Portland chichester rallroad-Ar-
| rive at 1.45 and 600 p. M; close at $50 and
| 11.45 a. m.
I
l 600 and 835 p. M; close at $50 a. M, 1l.45
| a. M, and 5.3O p. m.
/ WestbrooE (saccarappo) Arrive at $40 a.
| m. 1.45 and 500 p. M close $50 and 11.45 a.
| m. and 5.30 p m.
Cape Elizabeth and Kaatghtvi1e--Arr at
/ 500 a. m. and p. M. close at a. NJ and Lao
p. m.
Bo,eery Beach-Arrive at p M; close Las.
| p. m.
South Portland and Va,ard-Arrive at a.
| 0pd1 m aln or q m N
| m.
CLASSIFICATION OF MAIL MATTER.
Classification of Domestic Mail Nat
! ter.-Domestic mail matter,-that is.
| mail matter sent in the mails from some
post office within the Unit | States to
| some other post office within the same.-
| is divided into four classes, as follows:
| 1st class. Written matter, namely, letters,
postal cards, and all matter wholly or partly in
| writing, whether sealed or unsealed Except
manuscript copy accompanying PROOF sneets or
| corrected proof sheets of the same.) All mat
/ ter sealed or otherwise closed against inspection
| is also of the first class.
newspapers and other periodical publications
! which are issued at stated intervals and as
| frequently as four times year, which bear
| date of issue, and are numbered conSecutively,
| are issued from known office OF publication.
are formed ofprinrd paper sheets without board.
sth leather or 95nep D nbc
character, OF devoted to literature, the sciences,
art or some special industry, and must have
| legitimate list of subscribers, and must not
be designed primarily for advertising purposes,
or for free circulation or circulation at nominal
| rates.
| other matter wholly in print (uot included in
| second-class natter, proof-sheets, corrected
proofsheets and manuscript copy accompany
| ing the same.
| "Printed natter is defined by statute to be
"the reproduction upon paper, by any process
except that of handwriting, of any words,
| letters, characters, figures or images, or OF any
4 combination thereof, not, having the
character of aniactual and personal correspon-
| dence.n
| printed letter, which, according to internal evil
dence, is being sent in Identical terms to sever
| al persons" and does not lose its character as
such by writing therein the date name Of the
addressee or of the sender, or the correction OF
mere typographical errors.
| 4th Glass Merchandise, namely all matter
| not embraced in the first, second or third
class which is not in its form or nature liable to
| DESTROY deface or otherwise damage the con-
tents Of the mail bag or harm the person no Of
| above the weight provided by law,
| limit of Weight Of Nail Matter.-No package
ceived for conveyance by mail. except single
| books weighing in excess of that amount, and
except books and documents published OF
pepsrtmsnts '' Of tie Government or from
| the Smithsonian Institution.
| 80 Second-claSS matter mailed in packages
at the pound rate is not subject to the four
| pound limitation.
| 81. The above limit of weight does not ap-
| ply to matter in foreign mails regulated by
| postalS conventions,
RATES OF POSTAGE.
On First Glass .Matter.-The rate of
postage on matter of the first class is as
| follows:
| 1. On letters and other written matter,
except that specially authorized to pass at
| third-clasS rates and on aled matter OF matter
| otherwise closed against inspection, two cents
| per ounce or fraction thereof.
| Q. On postel cards one cent each the price
1 for which they are sold.
| g. On "drop letters" two cents per ounce or
| fraction thereof when mailed at letter carrier
1 post offices, and one cent for each ounce OF
| fraction thereof at Offices where free delivery
| by carrier is not established.
| s. ON iSeconet-Cldss Matter. The rate OF
| postage on second7class matter when sent by
| the publisher thereof, and from the once or
| publication, Including samples copies, or when
| sent from a news agency to actual subscribers
thereto, or to other news agents, IS one cent per
| pound or fraction thereof.
The rate Of postage on newspapers and
| mn, of the S6COld-cIaSS