The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-06-24

regulations of the New Law
Governing Mail Routes

ommencing July 1st the
rural mail carriers will receive
an increase of salary, and the
law granting this increase also
provides other regulations,
among which is the following:
'On and after said date July !.
1904 said carriers shall not solicit
business or receive orders of any
kind for any person, firm or corpora
tlon, and shall not, during their hours
OF employment, carry any merchan-
disc for hire: Provided, tnat said
carriers may carry merchandise for
hire for and upon the request of
patrons residing upon their respec-
tive routes, whenever the same shall
not interfere with the proper discharge
OF their official duties, and unser such
regulations as the Postmaster-Gen-
eral may prescribe.
In pursuance of the above prOvis-
ION OF Law, it is ordered:
That rural carriers are not permit
TED to solicit business or receive orders
OF any kind for any person, firm or
corporation.
No mailable matter may be handled
oy rural carriers while serving their
routes, unless the proper postage has
oeen prepaid, with the single excep-
tion OF county newspapers, which,
uhcer the law, are permitted to be
carried free throughout the county in
which they are published, to actual
subscribers, and such newspapers ad-
dressed to subscribers, residents on
rural routes, must be deposited at the
post-office 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 permitted to re-
ceive any compensation from seller of
such merchandise.
Articles or packages, which are
handed to the carrier or deposited in
the post office or in rural letter box
or in collection box located on
rural route, with request that the
rural carrier deliver same. are sub
jest to the rules regulating mail
matter, including the payment of
postage thereon.
Articles or packages, that are not
mailable, which the patron desires
the rural carrier to carry must be
delivered to the carrier in person,
and in carrying merchandises 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 on duty, are not
permitted to carry spirituous liquors
either for themselves, for sale or for
he accommodation of their patrons.
Rural carriers are required to per-
MT post-of1ice inspectors, or other
1uly accredited agents of the Post
0fflce Department, to accompany them
on their regular trips over their
'outes. They must not carry other
passengers nor permit any person,
other than authorised postal officials.
70 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
business after hours which offers the
to solicite patronage on
heir routes, or which, by reason of
heir position in the Government
service, gives them special advantage
over competitors, such as book can
vasslng, soliciting insurance, selling
sewing or.other kindred oc-
'upations
Carriers must not. either in person
,r through others, directly or in
ilrectly, by any method VIII atever,
olicit money, gifts or presents: nor
ssue for profit, souvenirs or postal
landbooks; nor cooperate with or
lssist the publishers of same to secure
he patronage of the public: nor com
'ile directories for public use or
Issist publishers to compile them:
lor furnish the names and addresses
# patrons of their routes, for pay or
avor, to any business establishment,
n TO any individual, except to those
departmental officials who, under the
equations, are entitled to the same.
Signed H. G. PAYNE,
POstmaster-G General.