Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-01-30
OTHER POSTMASTERS
SHOULD COPY,
following Suggestions and
Instructions From Post
master General to Edu-
cate the Public in Post
Matters, President
Mckinley Issued
Information.

Us. Mckinley, of Orient, Ohio,
President of the Ohio State League
Of Postmasters, has prepared and
ssued the following information
with regard to the service and how
the people may help:
When you address your letters or
cards with a lead pencil see that the
address is plainly written. Most
letters lost are improperly addressed,
you had better use a pen and ink.
When you address a letter see that
you spell the name of office correctly.
Many post offices have similar names.
Don't write Gin. for Cincinnati, or
Col. for Columbus.
When you address a letter or card
leave room for the stamp and post
mark in the upper right hand cor
ner. Postmarks often blur your adj
dress.
Do not put writing in newspapers
or packages; if you do the matter
becomes first-class mail and you
must pay letter postage, two cents
an ounce, or you are liable to fine
Oslo.
Written or typewriter letters
paced in unsealed envelopes are sub
Jet to the same rate of postage as
when So ed-two cents an ounce.
"A Postcards in transparent envel-
opes will go at the rate of one cent
ifunsealed, provided there is moth
ing more than the address of the one
10 receive it and the name of the
sender Stamp must be placed on
envelope and not on card when en-
closed in transparent envelope.
Post cards containing writing and
nclosed in transparent envelope,
whether sealed or unsealed, must
bear a two cent stamp and the stamp
must be placed on the envelope in
ltead of the card.
Send money by postofice money
rider, for if it is sent in this manner,
Il lost in the mails the Post Office
Department will issue you another
order.
Send valuable papers or merchan-
disc by frst-class registered mail,
for the Post Office Department will
make good any loss in the mail not
exceeding $25.
Patrons of post offices can get bet
ter services by renting a box which
8 costs only Is cents for three months.
II you have box the postmaster's
work is lightened, and your mail is
not handled or looked over like it is
in the general delivery. The Post
Office Department makes great con-
veniences for you, so do not hesitate
to help in return.
Postmasters are not allowed to sell
postage stamps to be sent through
the mailsi exchange for merchan-
disc or W nayment of other bills.
When you mail a letter or package
see that it is substantially done up.
The rapid handling of the mails
sometimes destroys a poor envelope
or covering Of a package, and your
mail is thus lost.
You should put your name and
postoffice on the package, and if not
delivered it will be returned to you,
but you will have to repay the post
age unless it is first-class).
When you move to another post.
Office otify the postmaster from
your former post Office to forward
your mail and notify the publishers
Of your papers that YOU have chang
edyour post office.
Letters from the pension agency
can be delivered only to the person
70 whom addressed or to some mem
Der Of his or her family especially
authorized to receive the mail.
II you have a friend visiting you,
nave their mail sent in pour care.
Use an ordinary size envelope and
nave on it your return card; if it is
not delivered it will be returned to
You. and not 90 Ia tha Dead Letter