Post-Office

A government office for the receipt and delivery of the mail. The power to establish post-offices does not enable the postmaster-general to bind the government by leasing a postoffice for twenty years when there is no appropriation therefor; Chase v. U. S., 155 U. S. 489, 15 Sup. Ct. 174, 39 L. Ed. 234. The top of a letter-box is not an authorized depository for mail matter; 17 Op. A. G. 524. A repair shop though designated as a station is not a branch postoffice or station; Knox v. U. S., 30 Ct. Cl. 59. Where goods are sent by mail the postoffice is the agent of the buyer and not the seller; [1898] A. C. 200; and when they are delivered by the seller to the postoffice the title vests in the buyer; id.

204.

No person shall furnish any private conveyance for letters or packets, or in any manner cause or provide for the conveyance of the same by regular trips or at stated periods over any post route or between places between which the mail is carried.

See Blackham v. Gresham, 16 Fed. 609.

All waters, canals, and plank roads are post routes during the time the mail is carried thereon, and all railroads in operation are post roads; R. S. § 3964; all public roads and highways are post roads; Act of March 1, 1884.

See U. S. v. R. Co., 160 U. S. 1, 40, 16 Sup. Ct. 190, 40 L. Ed. 319.

See Postal Service.

See Postal Service.