Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-07-25
Star Route Box Delivery.

Star Route Box Delivery.
A convenience of which many Of our
country people may avail themselves,
and of which they may not be aware,
is the new star route mail regulations
in effect since July l. There are at
least three star routes in the county,
along which the benefits from these
regulations may be derived, and resi-
dents receive their mail almost as
punctually and conveniently as by the
rural delivery service already in ef-
feet over good part of the county.
The routes in this county are from
Charles Town via Daley and Kable-
town, to Myerstown; from Kearneys-
Vile, via Leetown, to Middlewayi
and from Shepherdstown to Snyder's
Mil. The principal provisions OF
these regulations, as we take them from
the circular issued by the Second AS
sistant Postmaster-G General, are:
Any person living on or near the
route and not within the corporate
limits of any town or within so rods
of anv postoffice, who desires his mail
deposited into box on the line of the
route by the carrier on said route may
provide and erect a suitable box on
the roadside, located in such manner as
to be reached as conveniently as prac-
ticable by the carrier, and such per-
son shall file with the postmaster at
the postofice to which his mail is ad-
dressed (Which shall be one Of the two
postofices on the route on either side
Of and next to the box request in
writing for the delivery Of his mail to
the carrier on the route for deposit in-
to said mail box, at the risk Of the ad'
dressee.
1t shall be the duty of the postmas-
ter at every such postofice, upon
written order from any person living
on or near the route, to deliver to the
proper mail carrier for that route any
mail matter, except registered mail,
with instructions as to the proper mail
box into which said mail matter shall
be deposited; but no mail matter go
delivered to a carrier for deposit shall
be carried past another postoffice on
the route before being deposited into
a mail box.
The carrier will be required to re-
ceive from any postmaster on the route
any mail matter that may be intrusted
to him, outside of the usual mail bag,
and shall carry such mail matter to
and deposit it into the proper boxes
placed on the line of the route for this
purpose; such service by the carrier
to be without charge to the addresses.
The Department does not prescribe
any particular design Of box to be used
for this service, but the person provid-
ing a box should see that it is Of such
character as to afford ample protec-
tion to his mail. If there is a lock
attached, key is not to be held by
the carrier, as hei expected to depos-
it the mail into the box through an
opening SO arranged as not to admit
of the mail being extracted from the
box thereby. The box should be go
located on the roadside that the car
rier can deposit mail therein without
leaving his vehicle
The carrier is not required-to col
lect mail from the boxes, but the law
provides that every carrier OF the mail
shall receive any mail matter present
ed to him, if properly prepaid by
stamps, and deliver the same for mail
/
ing at the next postofice at which he
arrives, but that no fees shall be al
lowed him therefor.