Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-07-03
Star Route Box Delivery.

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Star Route Box Delivery.
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 Terri
tories hereinafter named provide that,
in addition to carrying the mails to the
various post Offices, the carrier will be
required to deliver mail into all boxes
and hang small bags or satchels contain.
ing mail on cranes or posts that may be
erected along the line Of the route.
under the following regulations OF the
department:
Any person living on or near the
route and not within the corporate
limits Of any town or within 80 rods of
any post Office, who desires his mail de-
posted at given point on the line OF
the route by the carrier may provide
and erect suitable box or crane on the
roadside, located in such manner as to
be reached as conveniently as practic.
able by the carrier without disnount-
ing from the vehicle or horse, and such
person shall file with the postmaster at
the post office to which his mail is adj
dressed (which shall be one of the two
post offices on the route on either side
of and next to the box or crane) re-
quest in writing for the delivery of his
mail to the carrier FOR deposit-a at the de-
signated point, at the risk of the adj
dressee. The small bag or satchel a.
bove described, as we'll as the box or
crane, must be provided by the person
for whose use it is intened without ex-
pense to the Department.
It 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
carrier for that route any mail matter
placing in the respective satchels, where
such are used, the mail for the persons
to whom such satchels belong-with in
structions ito the proper mail box or
crane at which, said email matter shall be
deposited; Unregistered mail shall not
be go delivered unless expressly re-
| quested by the addressee in his written
order. No mail matter so delivered to
the carrier shall be carried past another
post Office on the route before being de-
posted into mail box or hung on a
crane or post.
The carrier on the route will be re-
quired to receive from any postmaster
on the route any mail matter or private
mail satchel that may be entrusted to
him outside of the usual mail bag, and
shall carry such mail matter or private
mail satchel to and deposit it into the
proper mail box or hang it on the pro-
per mail crane placed on the line Of the
route for this purpose; such service by
the carrier to be without charge to the
addresses.
The mail carriers must be of good
character and of sufficient intelligence
to properly handle and deposit the
mail along the route.
The Department does not prescribe
any particular design of box or satchel
to be used for this service, but the per-
| son providing either should see that it
is of such character as to afford ample
protection to his mail. If there is a
lock attached to the box, a key is not
to be held by the carrier, as he is ex-
| pected to deposit the mail without the
necessity of unlocking the box, The
box or crane should be 80 located on
the roadside that the carrier can deposit
the mail without leaving his vehicle or
| horse, and yet not where it will OBJ
struct public travel.
| The carrier is not required to collect
mail from the boxes, but there is no OBJ
! lection to his doing so if it does not in
terfere with his making the schedule
time. The law provides that every
carrier of the mail shall receive any
mail matter presented to him il pro-
perly prepaid by stamps, and deliver
the same for mailing at the next post
Office at which he arrives, but that no
fees shall be allowed him therefor.
The box delivery above described is
required by the contracts effective July
l, 1902, on all the star routes with but
few exceptions) in Arkansas, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma,
kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North
Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado,
New Mexico. Arizona, Utah, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Cali
| fornia, Alaska and Hawaii.
| w. S. SHALLENBERGER,
Second Assistant Postmaster General.