"OFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE. CONTAINING An Alphabetical List of Post Offices in the United States, with County, State, and Salary; Money-Order Offices, Domestic and International; Chief Regulations of the Post Office Department; Instructions to the Public; Foreign and Domestic Postage Tables, SCHEDULES OF THE ARRIVAL AND CLOSING OF MAILS AT THE PRINCIPAL CITIES, AND DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAIL STEAMERS, WITH OTHER INFORMATION. Revised and Published Quarterly, BY AUTHORITY OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY. NEW YORK OFFICE: 21 ASTOR PLACE. Cambridge: The Riverside Press. Copyright, 1879, by HOUGHTON, OSGOOD & Co. JAN 27 1944 PRINCIPAL ALTERATIONS SINCE APRIL, 1879 FOREIGN MAILS.-On and after July 1, 1879, the Leeward Islands, British, viz: Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christopher, and the Virgin Isles, become a part of the Universal Postal Union. CHILI. Upon official information received by the Post Office Department to the effect that the adhesion of Chili to the Paris Convention had been indefinitely postponed, the name of that country has been stricken from the list of countries embraced in the Postal Union, and inserted, with rates of postage applicable thereto, in the list of Non-Union Countries in the Foreign Postage Table. An important direction respecting REGISTERED CORRESPONDENCE FOR ABROAD. the forwarding of registered matter for foreign countries will be found under the head of" Exchange Offices for Foreign Mails." NEW REGULATIONS. The attention of postmasters is called to the entire reading matter of this number, the whole having been re-written to conform to the new Laws and Regulations, copies of which will reach all post offices at an early date. Important changes will be found in chapters on Organization, Special Instructions to Postmasters, Suggestions to the Public, Domestic Rates of Postage, Registration, and especially in the Rulings. For List of Orders issued by the Postmaster General against parties conducting fraudulent lotteries, see p. 22. A circular respecting the use of Official Penalty Envelopes will be found on p. 31. An Important Notice to Postmasters concerning the admission of new publications to second class rates, with forms for temporary permits and formal entry, is given on pp. 61-65. On and after July 1st special stamps for postage due will be used. See the circular of the Third Assistant Postmaster General on p. 65. OFFICES ESTAblished, DiscONTINUED, AND NAMES CHANGED. The corrections made in the Alphabetical List of Post Offices are summarized in the list on pp. 261-267. MONEY-ORDER OFFICES. A list of offices discontinued is given; and the entire list of offices in operation has been carefully revised. See pp. 268-291. For a letter of the Postmaster General to the postmaster of New York respecting the construction of the term "printed commercial papers filled out in writing," as used in section 232, Postal Laws and Regulations, ed. 1879, see page 296. RATES OF POSTAGE ON DOMESTIC MAIL-MATTER REGISTRATION OF DOMESTIC MAIL-MATTER. LIST OF ORDERS AGAINST PARTIES CONDUCTING FRAUDU THE POSTAL MONEY-ORDER SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES LIST OF THROUGH REGISTERED POUCH OFFICES SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS CIRCULAR CONCERNING THE USE OF OFFICIAL PENALTY EN- VELOPES ARRIVAL AND CLOSING OF MAILS AT PRINCIPAL CITIES ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES OF STATES AND TERRITORIES. ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT. In addressing communications to the Department, care must be exercised that they bear the address of the officer in charge of the bureau to which the business relates. Never address to a clerk in charge of a division. Avoid writing upon more than one subject in the same letter. Observe the following examples: Relative to an appointment in the postal service, or the establishment of a post office, or question of postal law, or a postmaster's bond. Address Hon. JAMES N. TYNER, First Assistant Postmaster General. Relative to a mail route. Address Hon. THOS. J. BRADY, Second Assistant Postmaster General. แ Relative to distribution and dispatch of mails. Address Superintendent Railway Mail Service." Relative to letters returned to the Dead Letter Office. Address Hon. A. D. HAZEN, Third Assistant Postmaster General, Division of Dead Letters. An order for "postage stamps," etc. Same address except to substitute "Division of Postage Stamps," etc., in place of Division of Dead Letters. An order for blanks should be addressed to the Superintendent Blank Agency. Add to the address the words "Order for blanks." Write the name of your post office, county, and State, at the head of your letter, and properly date it. OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. Postmaster General, DAVID M. KEY, Tenn. Chief Clerk, W. A. KNAPP, Ohio. Private Secretary, T. B. KIRBY, Conn. Appointment Clerk, JAMES A. VOSE, Maine. Superintendent and Disbursing Clerk, J. O. P. BURnside, Ill. Chief Special Agent, DAVID B. PARKER, N. Y. Topographer, W. L. NICHOLSON, D. C. Chief Division Special Agents and Mail Depredation, CHARLES COCHRAN, Md. The duties of this office are under the immediate supervision of the Chief Clerk of the Department, and relate to the miscellaneous correspondence of the Department not specially connected with its other offices; the appointment of Department employees; the recording of orders promulgated by the Postmaster General; the fixing of rates for the transmission of government telegrams; the supervision of the advertising, and management of the general work of the Department not otherwise assigned. To it is attached the office of the Topographer, charged with the duty of keeping up the maps in constant use in the Department proper, with the preparation and publication of new and revised post-route maps, with supplying maps to all branches of the postal service, and with furnishing information for the settlement of all governmental mileage and telegraph accounts; the office of the Superintendent and Disbursing Clerk, to which is assigned the supervision of all repairs, the care of the public property in and the furnishing of the Departmental building, and the disbursement of the salaries of the officers and employees of the Department; the office of Chief of Special Agents, to which are referred all cases of losses or irregularities in the mails, and all reported violations of the postal law; and the Division of Special Agents and Mail Depredations, to which are referred all accounts of special agents for salary, per diem, and allowance. |