Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1903 — Registry of Rural Mail. [ARTICLE]

Registry of Rural Mail.

Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden has issued a manual of instructions for the conduct of registry business in the rural free delivery service. The most important innovation provides for the registration of letters and parcels left in the rural mail boxes, the carriers leaving the sender’s receipt in the box. Formerly it was necessary for the sender to meet the carrier on the route. Rural carriers also are required to accept for registration mail matter properly prepared and offered by any one that meets them while on duty, whether a patron of the rural delivery or not.