The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-09-29
Mail Boxes to be Numbered.

Mdll DUKES TO Dc NUMBERED.
For public convenience and to
facilitate more accurate hand
ling of mail by rural free deliv-
cry carriers, it has been decided
that each rural mail box in
use on rural route, which under
the regulations of the depart
ment, is entitled to service, shall
be designated by mber in the
manner and by the method here
matter set forth; and the delivery
by rural carr ers of ordinary mail
matter of all classes addressed to
such boxes by number alone is
authorized so long as improper
and unlawful business is not con-
Quoted thereby.
l. PostmaSters at the respect
i've distributing offices are here.
by directed to instruct the car
riers of all rural free delivery
routes which have been operated
sixty days or more to review the
rural boxes in use on the routes
in the interval between the re-
ceipt of this order and September
80, 1905, and report which Of
them conform to the regulations
and are thus entitled to desigua.
tive numbers.
2. The following when found
to be safe. weatherproof, and fit
receptacles for mail, are entitled
to numbers:
(a) Boxes approved" under
Order No. 739.
(b) NOn-approved boxes erect
ed prior to October 1, 1902.
3. No non -weatherprOOf or
otherwise unfit receptacles for
mail shall be numbered. All
such must be replaced with regu.
latiOn approved boxes by the
owners, or no numbers will be
assigned.
No rural mail box erected with
in the limits of an incorporated
city or town or within one-half
mile of post Office at an incor-
porated town or village shall be
numbered, unless such box was
erected prior to October 3, 1908,
or is being served by specific
order of the department.
Service must not be withdrawn,
however, from any box now being
served, until such withdrawal is
expressly ordered by this office.
4. The numbers assigned to
boxes on each route will COM
mence with "NO. l." which will
pertain to the first regulation
box reached by the carrier after
leaving the starting point of his
route, travelling in accordance
with official description; box after
box thereafter to be counted and
given the proper number in reg
ular sequence in order of service
from "NO. l" to and including
all those boxes entitled to service
located on the route.
5. Each number thus arrived
at should be recorded in the car
rier's roster book opposite the
name of the owner of the box
so designated, and also opposite
the name of every other person
entitled to receive mail in said
box. Numbers thus applied to
boxes and registered may be
promptly reported to and record
ed by the postmaster of the dis
tributing office to which they be-
long, and must not be changed
thereafter except by specific au
tbOrity of such postmaster.
6. AS soon as possible after
completing the assignment of
box numbers on route, the post
master will furnish each box
owner with the official number
of his number box, and request
that this number be at once legi,
bly, and durably inscribed in q
conspicuous place on the outside
of the box.
Z. Boxes served regularly by
more than one route must, in
cases W here such double service
is duly authorized, be given num-
bers in regular consecutive order
on each route, by the method pre-
scribed in the preceding para
graphs for numbering boxes serv-
ed but by one carrier.
8. New boxes erected subse-
quent to the original numbering,
between those already in posi-
ton on a route and consequently
mum bered, will be designated by
applying thereto in the regular
order the next consecutive num-
bers shown, by the record of
numbered boxes already on the
route to be unused.
8. The work of numbering
boxes on newly established routes
must not be undertaken until the
great majority are permanently
in place. Not less than 60 days
should elapse, however, after ser
vice begins before the numbers
are assigned.