This Country of Ours

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This Country of Ours
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The railway postal clerks are under the civil ser- vice law, and in addition to the entrance examina- tion, are subjected to frequent further examinations to test their accuracy in mail distribution. Every error made in the distribution of mail matter is re- ported, and the official life of a negligent or incom- petent man is now very brief.
We have heard much about the " Star Routes, " but few people know what they are, or why they are so called. They are the mail routes other than the railroa
...d and steamboat routes upon which the mails are car- ried by riders, stages, wagons, or other like means. The contracts do not specify the particular method to be used, but require that the service shall be performed with "celerity, certainty, and security. " In the report of the Postmaster- General for 1896 this account is given of the origin of the term " star routes : " " Bids for such service were there- after classified as ' celerity, certainty, and se- curity ' bids, from the distinguishing words of the statute, and presumably to avoid the constant writing out of these words in the books of this 248 THIS COUNTRY OF OURS office, the clerks of the contract division designated them on the route registers by three stars (* * *), and they became known as 'star bids.

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