Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-11-17
NEW POST OFFICE RULE
Bulk of all UndeIivered Mail to he
Treated as Dead in Five Days.


Uncalled for letters in the post
Office will remain but five days here
after before being sent to the dead
letter office. Heretofore the limit has
been 80 days at the end of viii a
time the amount of ucalled for mat
ter is so accumulated that it is al
most an impossible task for the reg
ular force to handle it.
The order has gone out in the b
i,tin which was issued from the Office
os the postmaster general Novembc
20. The order reads:
Ordered, that in accordance with
the provisions of an act of congress.
approved June "a, 1910, the postal
laws and regulations Of 1902 be am
ended as follows:
Section 67O. When the writer Of
any letter on which the postage is
prepaid shall indorse on the outsi ie
thereof his name and address, sucn
letter shall not be advertised, but af-
ter remaining uncalled for at the Of
fee to which it is directed the time
the writer may direct, or the post
master general prescribe, shall be re-
turned to the writer without addi-
tional charge for postage, and if no.
delivered shall be treated as dead
letter
Section 672. Whenever any un-
claimed matter of the first class
other than postal cards and post
cards bears the name and address of
the sender as postonce box, number
and street, ETC., without a request
that the same be returned if not de-
livered. such matter will be termed
card matter" and must not be ad-
ve vertised. but must be returned to the
sender within the time prescribed by
the following paragraphs:
Uncalled for letters directed t..
street and number in cities, five day
Uncalled for letters for delivery
ia cities, five days.
Uncalled for letters for delivery
by rural carrier, five days.
Uncalled for letters in Offices of
the fourth class and not intended fc
C,.-gery by rural carrier, IS davs.
All requests, card or official mat
te. of any class must bear on its face
the reason for such return such Us
Refused" Removed" Present ad-
dress unknown" deceased" P" 'Un-
claimed" Cannot be found" Ad-
dress incomplete" etc, and must be
in every instance indorsed Returned
to writer" and bear the post mark
of the Office from which returned.
(signed) Frank H. Hitchcocs
! postmaster general.
These changes in the postal laws
= have greater bearing probably on
= Boise than any other city in the coan-
try at this time.
There is no city in the west, with
the exception of Seattle and Sar
Francisco, which has such an amount
Of general delivery mail as Boise.
At the end of 80 days the limit
heretofore when mail was retained L
in the postoffces, the amount accum
ulated was of such bulk that it was
almost an impossibility for the force
= to handle it.
This large amount of general de
livery mail in the Boise Office ha'
been the result Of the large init,
Of people to this city who lave n'
stated address, and who, even aftei
they are located permanently, con
tinue to have their mail sent to the
general delivery.
The postmaster has asked that ev
l. cry person in Boise who has a per
It manent address hand it in at the gen
eral delivery window, to facilitate
the handling of the mails for the de
partment