The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-07-15
STAR ROUTE BOX DELIVERY.

Washington sends us the follow
ing this week for publication. 1t
is of great benefit to the rural
districts on the mail routes
Notice is hereby given to the
public that the contracts in effect
July l, 1902, for the performance
of mail service on the star routes
in the States and Territories
hereinafter named provide that,
in addition to carrying the mails
to the various postofices, the
carrier will be required to deliv-
er mail into all boxes and hang
small bags or satchels containing
mail on cranes or posts that may
be erected along the line of the
route, under the following regu-
lations of the Department
Any person living on or near
the route and not within the cor
porate limits of any town or
within so rods of any postofice,
who desires his mail deposited
at a given point on the line of
the route by the carrier may pro
vide and erect a suitable box or
crane on the roadside, located in
such manner as to be reached as
conveniently as practicable by
the carrier without dismounting
from the vehicle or horse, and
such person shall file with the
postmaster at the postoffice to
which his mail is addressed
(Which shall be one of the two
postoffices on the route on either
side of and next to the box or
crane) a request in writing for
the delivery of his mail to the
carrier for deposit at the desig-
mated point, at the risk of the
addressee. The small bag or
satchel above described, as well
as the box or crane, must be
provided by the person for whose
use it is intended without ex-
pense to the Department.
1t shall be the duty of the
postmaster at every such post
office, upon a written order from
any person living on or near the
route, to deliver to the mail car
rier for that route any mail mat
ter-placing in the respective
where such are used. |
ihe mail for the persons to whom
such satchels belong-with in
;tructions as to the mail box or
;rane at which said mail matter
shall be deposited; but register
I'd mail shall not be so delivered
lnless expressly requested by
he addressee in his written or
Ter. No mail matter so deliver
d to the carrier shall be carried
asst another postoffice on the
QUITE before being deposited into
mail box or hung on a crane or
,ost.
The carrier on the route will
e required to receive from any /
ostmaster on the route any mail {
latter or private mail satchel /,
nat may be entrusted to him out {
lde of the usual mail bag, and
hall carry such mail matter or
rivate mail satchel 10 and de-
oslt 1T into the proper mail box /
hang it on the proper mail {
rane placed on the line of the /
oute for this purpose; such SER t
ice by the carrier TO be without 6
large to the addresses. +
The mail carriers must be of C
ood character and of sufficient a
ltelligence to properly handle S
nd deposit the mail along the S
,ute. "
The Department does not pre- c
'ribe any particular design of b
Ok or satchel to be used for this h
'rvice, but the person provid- il
g either should see that it is of S
lch character as to afford ample a
rejection to his mail. If there Q
a lock attached to the box, il
ey is not to be held by the car A
err, as he is expected to deposit n
ie mail without the necessity of G
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