Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-07-19
For Mail Route Patrons.

For Mail Route Patrons.
The Act of Congress making appro.
| priations for the service of the Post
Office Department, for the fiscal year
beginning July 1, 1904, in connection
with the appropriation for the pay OF
rural carriers, provides that:
"On and after said date July 1, 1904,
said carriers shall not solicit business
or receive orders Of any kind for any
person, firm or corporation, and shall
not, during their hours of femploYment,
carry any merchandise for hire; pro-
vided that said carriers may carry
merchandise for hire for and upon the
| request Of patrons residing upon their
respective routes, whenever the same
shall not interfere with the proper
discharge of their official duties, and
under such regulations as the Post.
master-Gsneral may prescribe"
In pursuance of the above provision
of law it is ordered:
That rural carriers are not allowed
to solicit business or receive orders of
any kind for any person, firm or cor
poration.
No mailable matter may be handled
by rural carriers while serving their
routes, unless the proper postage has
been prepaid, with the single excep-
tion of county newspapers, which
nnder the law, are permitted to be
carried free throughout the county in
which they are published, to actual
Subscribers, residents on rural routes,
must be deposited at the post-off1ce
the same as papers for other sub
scribers.
The hire for merchandise carried on
request of the patrCn of rural free de-
livery must be paid by the patron.
Carriers will not be permitted to re-
ceive any compensation from the sell
er of such merchandise.
| Articles or packages, which are
mailable, which are handed to the
carrier or deposited in the post Office
or in a rural letter box or in a collection
box located on rural route with the
request that the rural carrier deliver
same, are subject to the rules regulat-
ing mail matter, including the pay
ment of postage thereon.
| Articles or packages that are not
mailable, which the patron desires
the rural carrier to carry must be de-
liyered 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 any thing that will in any way
delay the delivery Of mail, or In any
way interfere with the efficiency OF
the service.
Carriers, while on duty, are not per-
mitted to carry spirituous liquors
either for themselves, for sale or for
the accommodation Of their patrons.
| Rural carriers are required to per-
nit post Office 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 mail.
Rural carriers must not engage in
any business during their prescribed
hours of service, or conduct any busi-
ness after hours that offers the tempta-
tion to solicit patronage on their
route, or which, by reasons Of their
position in the Government service,
gives them special advantage over
competitors, such as book canvassing,
soliciting insurance, selling sewing.
machines, or other kindred occupa-
tion.
| Carriers must not, either in person
or through others, directly or indirect.
ly, by any method whatever, solicit
money, gifts or presents; nor issue for
profit, suvenirs or postal handbooks;
nor cooperate with or assist the pub.
Usher Of same to secure the patronage
of the public; nor compile directories
for public use or assist publishers tt
compile them; nor furnish the names
and addresses Of patrons on theil
routes, for pay or favor, to any bust
ness establishment, or to any indlyid
ual, except to those departmental OH
cials who, under the regulations, ar
entitled to the same.
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