Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-21
PosToFFIcE NEWS.
still Better Free Delivery Service for
South OttumWa.

Postmaster Lee has obtained au-
thority from the post Office department.
to use an additional horse for the free
delivery service in South Ottumwa
for the ensuing year. This will enable
him to. give free delivery to practically
every home in that part Of the city.
This additional service. in connection
with the street car collection service,
will give to the people OF South Ottum-
wa mail service such as is not excelled
in any city of the size of Ottumwa,
or indeed in places much larger, any
where in the country.
The street car collection service is
proving more popular and valuable
each day, and is greatly appreciated by
people living or doing business in the
outlaying districts. In a recent report
on this matter, Postmaster Lee stated
that the street car service now in OPP
GRAFTON in this city does more to ex-
pedite and better the work of collect
| ing mail than could be accomplished
by an extra carrier. Mali is taken up
from the street cars at II a. M, p.
m, 1928 p. m. and II p. m. These
hours OF collection enable all mail
deposited in the street car boxes to
be dispatched by the first mail trains
leaving the city. ne.
| The Ottumwa postmaster has receiv-
ed official information that on June IA,
1900, Thursday the Hawaiian islands
became a territory of the United
States, consequently the United States
postal laws and regulations and all
domestic conditions including payment
Of postage by United States postage
stamps shall from that date be in eff
feet, to from and with the territory
OF Hawaii.
1t is also ordered that all mail mat
tiers sent from the United States to
| the Island of Guam, the Philippine
Archipelago or the Tutuila, including
all adjacent islands of the Samoan
Group which are possessions of the
United States shall be subject to the
United States domestic classification
conditions and rates of postage. The
same provisions shall apply to all
mail matter sent from the above nam.
ed points to the United States.
BY act of congress the United States
postal laws, and regulations and all do.
nestle postal conditions, including
payment of postage with United States
| postage stamps, are already in effect
to, from and within the Island of Por.
| to Rico.
Mail sent to and from the island Of
Cuba, excepting the mail OF soldiers
sailors and government officials is still
subject to the foreign rate of postage
that is the postal union classification
conditions and rates.
/ Official instructions in regard to reg
istered mail addressed posroffices or
a certain route in the Yukon district
British Columbia, has been received az
follows:
In addition to letters and posta
cards now included in registered mails
exchanged with the Yukon district
British Columbia, mail of other classes
addressed to postoffices on the route
from Lake Bennett, B. c., to Dawson
B. c., including both terminals o.
route, in the said district, will be &C
cepted by postmasters when presented
for registration, and will thereafter b.
billed with registered package envel
i opes and tags to the exchange Office o.
Skaguay, Alaska. Letters and posta
cards only may be registered for post
Offices in the Yukon district, B. G.
not located on the said route.