Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-10
street Letter Boxes on Rural Route.

rural 1ree QelNery route extending
from this city to Nasby's Corners.
These boxes will be located as follows:
One at Geo. Giltner's corner on the
State road.
One at Jno. w. Fishers corner on
the Bladensburg road.
One at Nasby's corners.
One at the intersection of the Dab
lonega and State road
| Mail deposited in these boxes will be
taken up each day by the carrier on
the Rural free delivery route. The use
of these official mail boxes will prove
to be great convenience to the public
in general.
Will Use A. d. II. Messenger.
In order to facilitate the delivery of
letters bearing special ten-cent deliv-
| cry stamp, Postmaster Lee asked the
department for permission to utilize
the messengers of the American Dis
trict Telegraph company, which COM
pany recently began business in this
city. A letter received this morning,
states that ''the department will inter-
pose no objection TO your entering into
the proposed arrangement" The AID.
I. messenger boys will be sworn in to-
day and hereafter special delivery let
tiers will be delivered as late as 10
o'clock p. IN. The use of the A. d. L.
messengers in connection with the
street car collection system will enable
the public to secure exceedingly rapid
delivery of local mail sent from one
part of the city to the other. For eN-
ample a resident living two miles from
the postotfice on the South Side, if sup
piled with special delivery stamp,can
mail a letter on the street cars at any
time previous to 1880 a. m. This let
ter will be taken up at the II O'clock
collection from the street car boxes
and if addressed for example, to some
one residing far from the postoffice in
the east or west end or any other part
of the city, will be Immediately for
warded to the addressee bv an A. d. L.
messenger. The same thing can be
done for the second and third collec-
tons from the street car boxes which
are made at 400 and 1880 p. IN. re-
lspectively.
| The total expense to the party
sending the letter is the regular post
age of two cents and ten cents for the
special delivery stamp. In this respect
no better facilities are furnished the
patrons of any rostoffice in the United
States than those now given the resi-
dents of Ottumwa.
A Fraud Order.
The postofice department has issued
a fraud order covering the mail adj.
dressed to A. w. Blouin, Montreal
Canada. The department has reason to
believe this this party is conducting $
lottery, and mail addressed to him will
not be forwarded. Neither will mon.
ey orders be drawn payable to his or.
der.
To BE Bronzed.
| The Ottumwa postmaster has been
advised that the street letter boxes in
this city will at an early date be paint.
ed with one coat of aluminium bronze
and lettered with red. The iron posts
to which they are attached will be
scraped and painted with one coat Of
bronze green.
Carrier Repatriation.
The registration of letters by car
riers while on their routes will be in
augurated in Ottumwa on Tuesday
| May Is, in accordance with instruc
tions received from the postoffice de
partment by the Ottumwa postmaster
| The official instructions to carriers are
as follows:
Carriers will accept letters fol
registration when making delivery, o.
| if hailed for that purpose when pass
ing.
delays causing overtime must be
avoided.
3-Carriers are not to enter into
discussion or explanation with pa
irons. The card of Information
(Form 3s99-R) makes it unneces
| sary.
Carriers must at all times. en-
courage the registration of valuable
| letters.
Receipt books must not be exhib
tied or intrusted to unauthorized per
sons for any purpose whatever; ant
no information regarding a registered
letter may be given to any person but
4 the sender, the addressed, or tht
properly authorized agent of either.
each receipt taken from The
book represents a registered letter tx
be accounted for.
4. 7-Be careful to see that every let
ter accepted for registration
/ First-Bears name and street ad
dress of sender.
| Second--Name of the person TO,
whom it is intended, with postottic'
and state of destination.
4 Third-That it is enclosed in seal
4 ed envelope strong enough to safel.
carry contents.
/ Fourth-That either stamps enough
4 to fully prepay postage and registr,
fee are attached, or that the exac
sum of money to buy them is handed
to YOU.
i s-Write receipts plainly and cor