Stanard

Plaintiff V. E. Stanard is engaged in the business of distributing and selling-through the mail certain publications, “pin-up” pictures and novelties, under the firm name and style of Male Merchandise Mart. On March 1, 1954, the Solicitor for the Post Office Department filed a complaint, alleging upon probable cause that Albert J. Amateau and V. E. Stanard were conducting an unlawful business through the mail, in violation of 18 U.S. Code, 1342 and 1461, and of 39 U.S.C.A. § 255 and § 259a.

It appearing from the allegations and from the exhibits comprising the complaint that it was necessary to determine whether the mail addressed to the aforesaid parties should be delivered to them or whether it should be disposed of pursuant to the above mentioned statutes, an order was addressed to the Postmaster at Los Angeles, California, directing him “to refuse to deliver such mail to the parties claiming same until their identity and the character of the business conducted thereunder is satisfactorily established upon evidence which will be received at a hearing to be held in the Post Office Department upon a date which shall be fixed by the Chief Hearing Examiner, and such mail shall be…