book kept for that purpose, and from this book the necessary
corrections in the several Distribution Lists affected should be made.

6. Changes in the distribution affecting offices in other Divisions
should be at once communicated to the Inspectors for the Divisions in
which the offices are situated.

7. Postmasters and Railway Mail Clerks should be instructed at once to
report to you any errors in the distributions which may come under
their observation, and prompt steps should be taken for a prevention
of their repetition.

8. When a Mail Clerk or Postmaster has a large number of letters for
any particular office with which he does not exchange direct mails, he
should tie them all up in one package, either addressing the package
or facing the top and bottom letters outwards.

9. Provision should in all cases be made for the direct transmission
of letters and papers between offices on the same route.

XIV.

TRAVELLING.

1. Visit and inspect each Money Order and Savings Bank Office in your
Division and make a report thereon to the Postmaster General on the
printed forms, as often as occasion serves, but at least once every
year.

2. Visit and inspect every other office in your Division as often as
circumstances permit.

3. Do not, unless with good and sufficient reason, pass a Post Office
without calling and inspecting it.

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 du