Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-02-19
STOPS FILTRATION
New Order Issued by Postal De
partment Will be Welcomed.
FORBlDS RENTING BOXES TO MINORS
Recent Order Makes New Rule Re-
gardins Delivery and Receipt of
Registered Mail on Rural Routes
Will Increase Utility of Plan.

A phase of Irritation which is said
to be very popular in some cities
though it has never been noticed to
any extent in this city, is put to an
end by recent order issued by Third
Assistant Postmaster Madden. 1t is to
the effect that hereafter minors will
not be allowed to rent postolfice boxes
and it forbids postmasters to issue
keys to people who have not attained
their majority. The reason for this is
very apparent. In some cases, girls
strike up Irritation with young men
and. for various reasons, do not wish
their parents to know it. 1t is, or has
been in the past, very easy for the
hayward Miss to rent a lock box in
the postoffice and have her friends
write to her. ADDRESSING the letters with
the number of the box. The new or
der stops this practice and will no
doubt be gladly welcomed by several
mothers in different parts of the coun-
/ try.
| Registered Letters on Rural Routes.
| A new order affecting the delivery
of registered letters on rural routes
has also been issued The most i'm
portant innovation provides for the
registration of letters and parcels left
/ in the rural mail boxes. the carrier leav-
| ing the sender's receipt in the box.
Formerly it was necessary for the
sender to meet the carrier on the
route.
Rural carriers are also required to
accept for registration mail matter
properly perpared and offered by any
one that meets them while on duty.
Storekeepers on rural routes custom
arily receive mail matter for their
patrons delivering it to them at the
first opportunity. Registered mail has
not been delivered in this manner in
the past, but provided now that on the
written order which the addresses are
required to leave for the delivery OF
their mail to the storelseeper, register
err mail will be delivered, except such
as is indorsed by the sender Deliver
to the addressed only"
! Orders to Clerks.
! The sixth postal division bulletin re
ceived contains the following orders
to the clerks: ''In cases where a CLERK
fails to receive from one source OF
from the same cause more than one
register pouch or inner sack, all fo
the same address. in reporting the
shortage at destination it is not nee
|, cessary that each individual pouch o
sack be represented by shortag
slip. The report of shortage of sev
) era register pouches or sacks TO
same destination may be made OIL
form 5000 so far as the same can b.
made legible for the use of the receiy
ing office
Cuban Mail.
The following order is found in tn
, postoffice bulletin received recently:
The postal administration of the repuh
lie of Cuba having concurred therein pend
ing the conclusion of the postal convention
between the United States and Cuba. al
: mail matter wholly unpaid or insuflicientl
5 prepaid. originating in Cuba for deliver
: in the United States. shall be forwarded t
the ADDRESSED upon the payment of doubl
the amount of the deficiency. In case sue
matter cunnot be delivered it shall be rt
| turned to the dead letter bureau of tn
e country of origin. This order does not nj
J. feet letters sent by soldiers, sailors ~
i. marines in the United States service !
a Cuba