General Instructions for the Guidance of Post Office Inspectors in the Dominion of Canada

by Alexander Campbell

28. No person must be employed, even in a temporary capacity, without the sanction of the Postmaster General previously obtained.

29. Furnish full particulars of any changes, especially of distribution, to the Inspectors of other Divisions which may be affected in any way by these changes, and cordially co-operate with them in the consideration and carrying out of any improvements which may generally benefit the Service.

30. Make yourself thoroughly conversant with all Acts of the Dominion Parliament relating in any way to the Post Office Service, and with all regulations relating to the Post Office Department, as well as with all details connected with its operation.

31. You have authority when you find it necessary to suspend a Postmaster, Clerk, or any other employé in your Division.

All the circumstances, however, should be at once reported to the Postmaster General.

32. When it is noticed that Postage Stamps attached to letters or other postal matter frequently fall off, or if it should be found that the stamps are insufficiently gummed or badly perforated, the fact should be reported to the Postmaster General, the name of the office at which the posting took place being given.

33. In closing a Post Office, or in transferring a Post Office to a newly appointed Postmaster, always see that the accounts are made up to the day of closing or transfer; and that the balance due thereon is paid and deposited in the Bank to the credit of the Postmaster General. The assumption by an incoming Postmaster of a balance due by his predecessor is objectionable. The amount due from the out-going Postmaster should, in all cases, be deposited as above, to the credit of the Postmaster General.

34. Except in very special cases, the opening and closing of offices should take effect on the first day of each month.

35. In the case of the transfer of a Money Order Office, the Transfer Receipt should be sent to the Superintendent of the Money Order Branch, at Ottawa, by the first mail after the transfer takes effect.

36. Immoral publications and other articles, the transmission of which through the mail are prohibited—and which are sent to you by the Railway Mail Clerks in your Division—should be at once forwarded to the Postmaster General.