The Elbert County tribune., 1902-07-10
star Route Boz Delivery .

Nutlcc Is gwen 10 tnc puDnc by the
postal department that the contracts in
effect July /, 1902, for the performance
Of mail service on the star routes in Col
orado provide that, in addition to carry
the carrier will be required to deliver
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 regula-
tons OF the department:
Any person living on or near the route
and not within the corporate limits OF
any town or within eighty rods Of any
postofiice, who desires his mail deposited
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 practicable by the
carrier without dismounting from the
vehicle or horse, and such person shall
file with the postmaster at the postoflice
to which his mail is addressed (which
shall be one OF the two postoflices on the
route on either side Of and next to the
box or crane) request in writing for the
delivery OF his mail to the carrier for de
poeit at the designated point, at the risk
of the addresse. 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 postofiicc, upon 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 as to the proper mail box or
crane at which said mail matter shall be
deposited; but registered mail shall not
be so delivered unless expressly request
ed by the addressee in his written order.
No mail matter so delivered to the car
rier shall be carried past another post
office on the route before being deposited
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 proper
mail crane placed on the line of the route
for this purpose; such service by the car
rier to be without charge to the ad-
dressees.
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 person pro
viding either should see that it is OF such
character as to afford ample protection
to his mail. II there is lock attached
to the box, a key is not to be held by the
carrier, as he is expected to deposit the
mail without the necessity OF unlocking
the box. The box or crane should be SO
located on the roadside that the carrier
can deposit the mail without leaving his
vehicle or horse, and yet not where it
will obstruct public travel.
The carrier is not required to collect
mail from the boxes, but there is no OBJ
lection to his doing so il it does not in
terfere with his making the schedule
time. The law provides that every car
rier Of the mail shall receive any mail
matter presented to him il properly pre-
paid by stamps, and deliver the same for
mailing at the next post Office at which
he arrives, but that no fees shall be al
lowed him therefor.