Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1878 — Recent Postoffice Rulings. [ARTICLE]

Recent Postoffice Rulings.

Skates, reptiles, confectionery and soap are unmailable. Mail-carriers cannot carry unsealed communications outside the mails. The Postofflce Department, wishing to avoid any complication with the rivalries existing between publishers, de'’ijnes to furnish information showing the amount of postage paid by any publications in any 7 «,«- The law providing for the forwarding of letters at the request of the party addressed, without additional charge for postage, does not apply to printed or third-class matter. The addition of the date on a printed circular by a hand-stamp, subjects the same to letter rates of postage. Advertising sheets, folded within the issue of any publication, sent to regular subscribers, subjects the same to the rates for third-class matter. Hand-bills sent from the printer to the party ordering the same must be charged as merchandise, and postage paid at the rate of 1 cent for each ounce or traction thereof. A publication, in order to avail itself of the pound rates, must be mailed at the postoffice nearest the claimed office or place of p iblication. It may also "be mailed at ou ir offices at the pound rates, to regular subscribers, by newsagents. A husband cannot control the wife’s correspondence, nor can the wife control the correspondence of the husband. Postmasters are exempt from militia duty. Private, individuals cannot send any communications in the mails free of postage, no matter to whom it may be addressed. The words “please forward” on the address side of a postal card subjects the same to letter rates of postage. A Postmaster may attend to business for private parties, if it does not interfere with his duties as Postmaster, if he chooses to do so. The erasure of an address on a postal card and the substituting of another does not make such card unmailable.— Western Postal Review.