Show LETTER CARRIER SYSTEM letter carriers will be appointed and their salaries fixed by the postmaster general as heretofore where letter carriers are already appointed their duty is to deliver all letters concerning which there is no positive direction to the contrary it is the especial duty day of postmasters to provide that all letter sarc sare regularly frequently and promptly delivered by the carriers so that citizens may have no excuse for clinging td the old custom of cal calling liag at the post office the purpose of tile the law providing for a free delivery of letters at the houses of owners is to promote the public convenience and at the same time reduce the labor in post offic offices 18 postmasters will especially discourage the use of private boxes a and nd steadily aim at reducing them to the lowest number possible in order to facilitate the carriers work citizens must be induced to provide letter boxes at their houses aud and places of business where carriers are not yet employed postmasters should immediately recommend one or more for appointment selecting only young vio vigorous orous and trustworthy men inen m in whom tile the people may fully confide to give this tin s branch of the public service the utmost efficiency tile the pos postmaster t general liw has now established a letter carriers desk in ill connection with tile the appointment division of his own department as assigned thereto the experienced general john B 1 I skinner who will supervise cpr vise the duties of the new desk in addition to those of the principal clerkship of the ap nent division POSTAGE STAMPS STAMP S AND STAMPED ENVELOPES chis section is specially designated to encourage parties to purchase postage stamps and stamped envelopes as articles of trade to be resold and thus relieve post poet offices of the labor connected with making sales in small quantities postmasters will accordingly sell postage stamps in quantities not less than one hundred dollars in value and stamped envelopes in in packages containing taini nj not less thun five hundred envelopes ve lopes at a discount of five per cent from the face value of stamps and from the current prices of envelo envelopes ap es luc including luding the stampe in order to obtain credit for the dis thus allowed a voucher must be procured in eack each case signed 0 by the purchaser and the postmaster showing the original value of the the stamps sta nips and envelopes en of each denomination and the amount deducted and tho actual abdual amount paid for them postmasters will report monthly to the third assistant postmaster general the amount of such sales |