Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — Bural Route Carriers Must Go Over Routes Every Day. [ARTICLE]

Bural Route Carriers Must Go Over Routes Every Day.

I mu a m , - 'a a x * It . ' t ' i t k" ’ i IIJwSS' 'xl ' 11’ -3 a LU. ' X TuTnoV The 6 department will make a reduction in the carrier’s pay upon [a partial failure. t When the parttai failure is due to the carrier's, equipment or due to his [failure, in stormy weather or in high water «r bad/roads, to use endeavor' to serve his route by traveling every possible road; whenever the failure is due to lack of interest in the service or misconduct On part of the carrier, sickness or any reason of a personal nature in the carrier. Upon reaching an obstructed point he should make, such deviation from the official line of travel as to avoid it. If this is impossible he must return immediately to the postoffice and start out in the opposite direction. When after leaving the postoffice he finds* he cannot reach his route he must take some other road though covered by another carrier, and endeavor to serve the patrons. The excuse that the roads'are,-slippery or too hard to travel will not be considered, as each carrier must be prepared* to serve his ropte under all conditions of weather and the roads.