The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-10
ADVERTISER WILL FURNISH PATRONS. WITH MAIL BOXES
Persons Desiring Rural Delivery Service Must Have Boxes of Regulation Pattern, which will
 be Supplied Subscribers,

any letter box or other receptacle estab- lished by order. of the Postmaster-Gen- erai or approved or designated by him for the receipt or delivery of mail matter on any rural free-delivery route or shall open the same, or wilifully or maliciously injure, deface or destroy any mali mat ter deposited therein, or shall willfully take or steal such matter from or out of such letter box or other receptable or shall wilifully aid or assist in any of the aforementioned offences, shall for every such offense be punished by rine of not more than one thousand dollars. or by Imprisonment for not more than three years
 Each box must be erected by the road side, so that the carrier can easily obtain access to 1t without dismounting from his vehicle. The same box must not be used for more than one family, except in the case of near relatives, or those rs' siding in the same house. sg Persons negiecting or refusing to com ply with these conditions will be regard ed as not desiring rural free . delivery, and the rural carrier will be directed not to serve them. "The fourteen designated boxes includ- ed in Department order of March 2S. 1901. as receiving the approval of the Postmas- ter General, will be accepted as failing within the provisions of the statute as above quoted, when contracted for or erected in good faith prior to the date when this order goes into effect; but on and after October l. 1902. the manufac- tu-ers whcse boxes have been hereto fore approved will be required to con form to the stipulations herein set forth as to size, shape, material and workman ship of boxes supplied by them.
 "In all service heretofore established. and wherein Inappropriate. unsafe and unsuitable boxes are in use, the Depart ment will expect that patrons of rural free delivery (now accepted as per manent feature of postal service) will conform as promptly as possible to the foregoing requirements, if they desire the continuance of rural free delivery. Those charged with the administration of the service will put this order into enect with firmness, but without undue haste or harshness.
 'The order prohibiting postmasters and carriers from assisting in the selection of rural mail boxes Is modified to the extent of permitting them to advise pro- posed patrons of rural free delivery So that, in the selection of boxes, they shall comply with the requirements Of the De- partment; but they are prohibited rom becoming the agents of any rural box / wise aiding in the sale of any particular box.
 No special agent route inspector or other officer of the postoffice service can be permitted to act as agent for, or py himself or through others to become in- terested in the sale of any rural free de- livery letter box. H. c. Payne.
 Postmaster General"
 In order that subscribers on free rural delivery routes in Alabama shall be pro- yided with the best service possible The Advertiser has arranged to supply all daily subscribers with an approved mall box free of charge.
 There are fourteen different manufac- turers of boxes in the United States whose boxes have been approved by the Postoffice Department at Washington. The Advertiser has taken particular care to select the best and most durable box supplied for this purpose. reeulation steel box is used by The Advertiser that will last for many years and protect mai from the most severe weather in pubic highways where all boxes must be placed Each subscribers name is placed upon the box which will be supplied free or charge to any. one signing an agreement to accept and pay for the Daily and Sun day Advertiser at regular rates. The Daily and Sunday Advertiser Is de- Iiyered for 65 cents per month on any route.
 Rural free delivery carriers are instruct cd to take orders and collect for subscr1p- tions at any interval suitable to sup- scribers.
 Boxes may be had at any time by ap- plying to rural carriers or the Circulation Department of The Advertiser.