The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-07-14
RURAL FREE DELIVERY
New Regulations Defining Duties an
Privileges OF Carriers.


Washington, June S-Order No 500
The act of Congress making appro
priation for the service OF the post
office department for the fiscal year
beginning July l, in connection
with the appropriations for the pay
of rural carriers, provides that;
ION and after said date( July II
said carriers shall not solicit bust
ness or receive orders of any kline
for any person, firm or corporation
and shal not during their hours OF
employment, carry any merchandise
for hire; provided, that said carri
ers may carry merchandise for hire
for and upon the request of patrons
residing upon their respective routes
whenever the same shall not inter
fere with the proper discharge OF
their official duties, and under such
regulations as the Postmaster Gen
eral may prescribe"
In pursuance of the above pro-
vision of law it is ordered:
That rural carriers are not per
mitted to solicit business or receive
orders of any kind for any person,
firm or corporation.
No maiIable matterkmay be han
died by rural carriers while serving
their routes unless the proper post
age has been prepaid, with the sin
gle exception Of county newspapers
which, under the law, are permitted
to be carried free throughout the
county in which they are published,
TO actual subscribers, and such
newspapers addressed to subscribers
residents on rural routes, must be
deposited at the postoffice the same
as papers for other subscribers.
The hire for merchandise carried
on request of the patron Of rural
free delivery must be paid by the
patron. Carriers will not be permit
ted TO receive any compensation
from the seller of merchandise /
Articles or packages which are
mailable, which are handed to the
carrier or deposited in the postoffice
or in a rural letter box or in a col
lection box located on a rural route
with request that the rural carrier
deliver the same, are subject to the
rules regulating mail matter, in
GLIDING the payment of postage
thereon
Articles or packages which are
not mailable, which the patron de-
sires the rural carrier to carry must
be delivered to the carrier in person
and in carrying merchandise for
hire rural carriers are not permitted
to leave their routes as officially
laid out or TO accept anything that
will in any way delay the delivery
of mail or in any way interfere with
the efficiency of the service,
Carriers while OH duty are not
permitted to carry spirituous
liquors, either for themselves, for
sale, or for the accommodation of
their patrons.
Rural carriers are required to per
NIT postotfice inspectors or other
duly accredited agents of the post
office department to accompany
them on their regular trips over
their routes. They must not carry
other passengers nor permit any
person other than authorized postal
officials to ride with them or to
have access TO the mails.
Rural carriers must not engage in
any business during their prescribed
hours OF service, or conduct any
other business after hours which
offers the temptation to solicit pat
on their routes, or which by
reason of their position in the gov
eminent service, gives them special
adv antage over competitors, such as
book canvassing, soliciting insur-
or other kindred occupations.
Carriers must not, either In per-
son or through others, directly or
Indirectly, by any method whatever,
solicit money, gifts or presents;
nor issue for profit, souvenirs or
postal handbooks; nor cooperate
with, or assist the publishers of
same to secure the patronage Of the
public; nor compile directories for
public use or assist publishers to
compile them; nor furnish the
names and addresses OF patrons of
heir routes, for pay or favor, to
my business establishment or to
my individual. except to those de-
,artmental officials who, under the
are entitled to the same.
H. G. PAYNE.
Postmaster General