From the Perham Bulletin, Dated Thursday Morning, May 11, 1893 On the Front page. New Postoffice Rules Postmaster Butler has handed in the following rules adopted at the recent convention: A pair of onions will go for two cents ink bottles must be corked when sent by mail. Persons are compelled to lick their own postage stamps and envelopes; the postmaster cannot be compelled to do this. Persons are earnestly requested not to send postal cards with money orders inclosed, as large sums of money are lost that way. Nitro glycerine must be forwarded at the risk of the sender. If it should blow up in the postmaster’s hands he cannot be held responsible. When letters are received bearing no direction the person for whom they are intended will please signify the fact to the postmaster that they may at once be forwarded. As all postmasters are expert linguists the address may be written in Chinese or Chectaw. It is unsafe to mail apple or fruit trees with the fruit on them. It is earnestly requested that lovers writing to their girls will please confine their gushing rhapsodies to the inside of the envelope. Ducks cannot be sent through the mail when alive. The quacking would disturb the slumbers of the clerks on the postal cars. When watches are sent through the mail, if the sender will please put a notice on the outside, the postmasters will wind and keep in running order. John Smith gets his mail from 574,270 post offices, hence a letter addressed to John Smith, United States, will reach him. When you send a money order in a letter always write full and explicit directions in the same letter so that any person getting the letter can draw the money. Alligators over ten feet in length are not allowed to be transmitted by mail. The placing of stamps up side down on stamps is prohibited. Several postmasters have recently been seriously injured while trying to stand on their heads to cancel stamps in this manner. ~Claire Grant Sioux Falls SD Genealogy~ Practice of confusing the dead & irritating the living. --------------------------------- Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.