Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-10-05
Numbering Rural Mail Boxes.

in use on rural route, which, under the
regulations Of the Department, is entitled
to service, shall be designated by number
in the manner and by the method herein
after set forth; and the delivery by rural
carriers or ordinary mail matter Of all
classes addressed to such boxes by number
alone is authorized so long as improper and
unlawful business is not conducted thereby.
/. Postmasters at the respective distribu-
ting Offices are hereby directed to instruct
the carriers of all rural free delivery routes
which haye been operated sixty days or
more, to review the rural mail boxes in use
on their routes in the interval between the
receipt OF this order and September 30,
1905, and report which of them conform to
the regulations and are thus entitled to
designative numbers.
2. The following when found to be safe,
waterproof, and fit receptacles for mail, are
entitled TO numbers:-
(a) Boxes approved under order No.
739.
(b) Non-approved boxes erected prior to
October |, 1902.
3. No weatherproof or otherwise un-
fit receptacles for mail shall be numbered.
All such must be replaced with regulation
approved boxes by the owners, or no
numbers will be assigned.
No rural mail box erected within the
limits of an incorporated city or town or
within one-half mile Of post office at an
unincorporated town or village shall be
numbered unless such box was erected
prior to October 8, 1908. or is being served
by specific order of the Department.
Service must not be withdrawn, how
ever, 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 commence with No. /, q
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 thtreaft II to be counted and given
the proper number in regular sequence in
order of service from No. II to and in
Guiding all those boxes entitled to service
located on the route
5. Each number thus arrived at should
be recorded in the carriers roster book
opposite the name Of the owner of the box
50 designated, and also opposite the name
Of every other person entitled to receive
mail in said box. Numbers thus applied
to boxes and registered must be promptly
reported to and recorded by the postmaster
of the distributing Office to which they be-
long, and must not be changed therefter
except By specific authority Of such post
master.
s. As soon as possible after completing
the assignment Of box numbers on a route
the postmaster will furnish each box owner
with the official number of bis box, and
request that this number be at once legibIy
and durably inscribed in a conspicuous
place on the outside of the box.
7. Boxes served regularly by more than
one route must, in cases where such double
service is duly authorized, be given num-
bers in regular consecutive order on eacA
route, by the method prescribed in the
preceding paragraphs for numbering boxes
served by one carrier.
s. New boxes erected subsequent to the
original numbering, between those already
in position on route and consecutively
numbered, will be designated by applying
thereto in the regular order the next con
secutive numbers 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 under.
taken until the great majority are perman-
emily in place. Not less than sixty days
should elapse, however, after service be-
gins, before the numbers are assigned
10. Carriers must keep their roster
books corrected up to date. New boxes
erected, removals, changes Of address,
names Of new patrons, etc., must be punct-
ually entered up and promptly reported to
The latter must carefully
oversee the work OF carriers. and also main
tain IN their Offices accurate and complete
lists Of the names and box numbers Of aA1
patrons Of each ronte attached to their
offices.
II. Any Instructions issued By this Office !
with this order are hereby r.
voked
postmasters viii give il the widest possible
70 patrons Of the rnral service.
without expense 70 the Depai tment.
P " d. GRAw