4. Keep before you a memorandum of cases requiring personal investigation, so that in travelling you may be able to attend to as many of these cases as may be in the direction of your journey.
5. In travelling ascertain, as far as you are able, if the service on the several routes over which you pass is in every respect satisfactorily performed, and make memoranda in your Pocket Memorandum Book of any irregularities which you may observe, or of any changes which you may think desirable.
6. Note and take down particulars of any locality at which it is likely a Post Office may be required, so that when applied for, you may be able to report thereon.
7. In visiting a Post Office the following points should engage your attention:
1. Is the office provided with—
A Sign?
A Letter-box?
Pigeon-holes for letters and papers for delivery and despatch?
Other necessary fittings?
Forms and other necessary equipments?
2. Is it conveniently situated and provided with proper accommodation for the public?
3. Are the Postmaster and his assistants duly sworn, and do they understand their duties?
4. Has the Postmaster proper stamps and material for post-marking letters, &c., and obliterating the stamps thereon?
5. Are the Letter Bills properly post-marked and fyled?