The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-11-19
Star ROuteS-h0W 10 Get Your
Mail.

&c. Any person living on or near
any star, and not within the corporate
limits of any city or village or within
so rods of any post Office, who desires
his mail deposited at a given point on
the line of the route by the carrier on
said route may provide and erect a
suitable box or crane on the roadside,
located in such manner as to he reach
ed as conveniently as practicable by
the carrier without diSmounting from
the vehicle or horse, and such person
shall file with with the postmaster at
the post office to which his mail is adj
dressed (which shall be one or both
of the two post offices on the route on
either side OF and next to the box or
crane) request in writing for the de-
livery of his mail to the carrier On the
route for deposit at the designated
point, at the risk of the addressee.
81. 1t shall be the duty of the post
master at every such post office, upon
written order from any personliving
on or near the route, to deliver to the
proper mail carrier for that route any
mail matter-placing in the respective
satchelS, where such are used, the
mail for the persons to whom such
SatchelS belong-with instructions as
to the proper mail box or crane at
which said mail matter shall be de-
posted; but registered mail shall not
be so delivered unless expressly re-
queSted by the addressee in his writ
ten order. No mail matter so deliver
ed to carrier shall be carried past
another post office on the route be-
fore being deposited into mail box or
hung on crane or post.
80. The carrier will be required to
receive from any postmaster on the
route any mail matter or private mail
satchel that may be intrusted to him,
outside of the usual mail bag, and
shall carry such mail matter or private
mail satchel to and deposit it into the
proper mail box or hang the satchel
on the proper mail crane placed on the
line of the route for this purpose; also
to collect the mail from the boxes
! when signal is displayed to indicate
that box contains mail to be taken)
and to deposit the same in the next
post office at which he arrives; and tc
take the mail satchel, where one is
used, either with or without mail
from the mail crane or post and carry
it to the next post office; such service
by the carrier to be without charge t.
the peraons sending or receiving the
mail
80. The small bag or satchel above
mentioned, as well as the box or crane
must be provided by the person for
whose use it is intended, without ex
penSe to the department.
40. The department does not pre-
scribe any particular design OF box
or satchel to be used for this service,
but the person providing either should
see that it is of such character as to
afford ample protection to his mail.
fl. A patron desiring the collection
of mail from his box should inform the
carrier of the signal adopted by which
the presence of mail in the box for
collection Will be indicated
Az The law provides that every
carrier of the mail shall receive any
mail matter presented to him, if
properly prepaid by stamps, and de-
liver the same for mailing at the next
post Office at which he arrives, but
that no fees shall be allowed him
therefor
Post master at this place has been
instructed not to deliver mail to the
carrier unless above laws dre complied
with.