Editing Star routes (section)

{{Short description|Old type of postal route in the United States}}
'''Star routes''' is a term used in connection with the [[United States Post Office Department|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.<ref name=npm>[[National Postal Museum]]. "[https://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/networking-a-nation/what-is-a-star-route What is a Star Route?]" Retrieved 2007-05-08.</ref>  The term is mostly used in connection with a series of scandals in the 1870s involving bribes to postal officials.<ref>J. Martin Klotsche (December 1935). "The Star Route Cases". ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review'' 22.3: 407-418. {{JSTOR|1892626}}.</ref>