Star routes

Star routes is a term used in connection with the United States postal service and the contracting of mail delivery services. The term is defunct as of 1970, but still is occasionally used to refer to Highway Contract Routes (HCRs), which replaced the Star routes.[1] The term is mostly used in connection with a series of scandals in the 1870s involving bribes to postal officials.[2]

  1. ^ National Postal Museum. "What is a Star Route?" Retrieved 2007-05-08.
  2. ^ J. Martin Klotsche (December 1935). "The Star Route Cases". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 22.3: 407-418. JSTOR 1892626.