which the connection is made shall also be shown on the address label.

2. Facing slips shall be of uniform size, 5 by 3 inches, and be prepared before going on duty.

3. Facing slips shall not be used a second time. Railway postal clerks shall note every instance of a violation of this rule, inclosing the slips as evidence.

4. Blank facing slips shall not be wasted, and but one slip placed upon a package. (See sec.

1612.)

Diagram of slip for R. P. O. package, pouch, or sack.

N. Y. AND WASH. R. P. O., TR. 1.
VA., VIA PHILADELPHIA, PA.

FROM BOST., SPRING. & N. Y. R. P. O., TR. 3.

89353°-15--12

(Postmark.)

HENRY SMITH.

Diagram of slip for direct pouch or sack.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FROM NASH. & ST. LOUIS R. P. O., TR. 4.

(Postmark.)

SAMUEL JONES.

NOTE.-Clerks are required to show clear and distinct impression of their name stamps on slips.

Sec. 1631. The proper routing and expeditious dispatch of the mails is of the utmost importance; therefore the noting of all errors is required. Every railway postal clerk is bound to perform this duty and must loyally and conscientiously comply with rules governing the same.

2. An error shall be charged when a piece of mail is not dispatched in accordance with the scheme, schedule, or special instructions, but nixie matter dispatched with State where "exception schemes" are used shall not be charged.

3. Errors shall be noted on reverse side of slip, giving name of the post office and State, slip postmarked with

date, and be signed with full name of clerk noting the error. Such notation shall include the entire number of pieces of mail erroneously distributed, in the following form:

4. Slips upon which errors have been noted shall be inclosed, with trip reports, to chief clerk or superintendent, as may be directed.

5. A missent package of letters and papers shall be checked on the slip covering the package, as follows:

and the slip, with the label of the pouch or sack, shall be forwarded to the division superintendent, with the trip report. If there is no slip on the package, check on a blank slip and forward as above. When checking errors found in a package made up for a post office and bearing an unaddressed slip, the office shall be noted at the foot of the slip over the signature of the clerk, as follows: "Found in package for "In this connection a package of papers is construed to mean a tie out under a separate label of more than one piece of separately wrapped and addressed mail matter other than letters.

6. Misdirected packages of letters or papers shall be checked in the same manner as a missent package, except the word "misdirected" shall be substituted for "missent" and the label in the pouch or sack shall not be forwarded.

7. Missent or misdirected pouches or sacks shall be reported as above. The labels shall be forwarded in all cases. In relabeling a missent or misdirected pouch or sack the new label should contain the correct destination as well as the name of the post office or railway post office by which originally made up, and the slip shall bear the postmark of the railway post office to which missent.

8. When there are no slips on packages or in pouches or sacks, reports shall be made thereof, stating if possible the line with train number or post office from which the mail was received.

9. All slips on which no errors have been noted, after being counted, shall be disposed of as waste, unless otherwise instructed.

Sec. 1632. Each letter or paper missent to a line shall be plainly stamped on the face "Missent," and the postmark of the line also stamped thereon.

NOTE.-When dispatch conforms to scheme, schedules, or special instructions, checks noted will be for information and not stand as errors. Such checks should be marked "For information."

NOTE. Clerks requesting credit for errors improperly checked shall forward the slips with reasons for request clearly stated.

NOTE.-In the alphabetical schemes furnished publishers only the more important R. P. O. lines are shown. Except in a few instances no No. 1 and No. 2 separations are required. "Hold out" offices are not ordered made up direct or massed on connecting lines, but are routed to the line on which located. Clerks SHALL NOT check as errors failure to make up No. 1 and No. 2 separations, failure to mass "hold outs" on connecting line, or failure to make up mail to trains. Only such mail which is not local to the line or connecting lines, and where it is obvious to the clerks that the mail is incorrectly dispatched, should be checked.

Sec. 1633. In counting mail worked each letter slip shall be counted as a package of letters, and each label on sacks of papers as a sack of paper mail. Packages and sacks merely opened for the purpose of consolidating or verifying the contents shall not be counted. The count shall include only matter actually distributed, but report should be made of mails received unworked or left undistributed.

2. Each clerk in crew shall furnish to the clerk in charge a memorandum in writing over his signature at the end of trip of the amount of mail distributed, number of registers handled, also the number of errors checked. The slips should be attached. The clerk in charge shall use such record in preparing the trip report and retain the memoranda for at least 30 days thereafter.

NOTE.-When primary distribution of letter or circular mail is to directs and redistribution is made of residue, one package shall be counted for each forty letters of such mail redistributed; when paper mail is distributed or redistributed in like manner, for each sixty pieces one sack shall be counted. In determining the number of pieces of parcel-post mail handled in terminal railway post offices, the basis for resolving bulk mail to sack and sack mail to pieces shall be twelve pieces to the sack.