The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-01-19
MAIL B0xESFOR
REGULAR MAIL
Postmaster General Farley
Issues Order on Circulars,
Sales Bills, Etc.

Under new postal regulations, issued
by the postmaster general, private mail
receptacles are restricted for the pur-
pose of receiving mail, any other matter
such as statements of accounts, circu-
lars, sales bills, or other matter, will be
removed by the carrier and held at the
post Office for regular postage, according
to announcement made by Frank
ISchweiger, postmaster.
The following sections of the postal
laws and regulations in this connection
are given:
Section CAT: Private mail recep-
tacles should be used to facilitate the
delivery of mail When designated by
the owner or user thereof for the
purpose of receiving mail, all rules and
regulations affecting the use of such
receptacleS issued by the postmaster
general shall be effective and apply to
such receptacles."
Section 947 is amended by the ad-
dition of paragraph 8 as follows:
Every such private mail box or other
receptacle intended for use for the
receipt or delivery of mail matter by
any city or village carrier shall be used
exclusively for the reception of matter
regularly in the mails, and any mailable
matter, such as statements of accounts,
circulars, sales bills, or other like mat
ter, deposited therein shall be treated
in accordance with the rules governing
the mails, including the proper adj
dressing and the payment of postage
at the regular rate.
When a carrier finds deposited in
such mail box or other mail recep-
tacle mailable matter on which no
postage has been paid, addressed to or
intended for the person in whose box it
is deposited, he shall take such matter
to the post Office to be held for postage
and treated as prescribed by section
1873"
Considerable complaint has been
registered by citizens who have found
their mail boxes, porches, lawns and
yards cluttered with circulars, Cir
cular letters, outside advertising publ
cations, mimeographed sheets and a
dozen or more kinds of advertising
matters, especially during the summer
months.
1t may not be generally known, but
Ordinance No. 3. regulating the post
ing and distribution of hand bills, etc.,
in the City of Ely" passed on April 3,
1917, covers the hand bill nuisance of
which many have complained Section
i of the ordinance states: 1T shall be
unlawful for any person within the
City of Ely to tack, nail. paste, or
otherwise fasten any hand-bill, poster,
advertisement, or circular of any deS-
cription, on any fence, wall, pole, bill
board, post or building, or to circulate,
distribute scatter or throw any hand
bill, pamphlet, circular, poster or adj
vertisement in or upon any of the
public streets avenues, parks, grounds
or other public places of the City of
Ely, or on any private property or in
a private building, provided that bills
and circulars may be posted and ad-
Vertisements placed on regularly estab-
lished bill-boards and distributed on
private property or in private buildings,
if the consent of the owner shall first
be obtained"
The ordinance further states that it
shall be unlawful to hire anyone to
distribute such matter but that the or
dinance does not apply to the distribu-
ton of cards of candidates for public
office. A fine of $50 or 60 days in jail
is provided for a conviction for the
violation of the ordinance.