Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-09-22
TO NUMRER BOXES.
Communication Sent to Various
POStmaSterS.

Under date of August 7, 1905,
the following order was sent out
from the rural free delivery di-
vision of the post Office depart
ment at Washington, and in due
season copy reached Postmas-
ter Johnson, at Corvallis:
To PosTMAsTERs:
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 the rural route, which, under
the regulations of the Depart
ment, is entitled to service, shall
be designated by number in the
manner and by the method here
matter set forth; and the delivery
by rural carriers 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.
I. Postmasters at the respec-
tive 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 mail boxes in use on their
routes in the interval between
the receipt of this order and
September 80, 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, weatherproof,
and fit receptacles for mail, are
entitled to numbers: (a) Boxes
"approved" under Order No.
73o; (b) Non-approved boxes
erected prior to October I, 1902.
3. No nou- weather-proot or other
wise unfit 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 incorpor-
ated 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
3. 1903, or is being served by
specific order of the Department
Service must not be with.
drawn, however. from any box
now being served, until such
withdrawal is expressly ordered
by this Office.
a.. The numbers assigned te
boxes on each route will com
mence with mo. ~ which will
pertain to the first regulation boz
reached by the carrier after leav
ing the starting point of hi
route, travelling in accordanc
with official description; bo,
thereafter to be counted an
given the proper number in re
gular sequence in order of Sc,
vice from mo I" to and includ
ing all those boxes entitled t
service on the route.
s, Each number thus arrive
at should be recorded in the cal
rier's roster book opposite tn
name of the owner of the box S
designated, and also opposite th
name of every other person enti1
led to receive mail in said box
Numbers thus applied to boxe
and registered must be prompt
reported to and recorded by th
postmaster of the distributin
Office to which they belong
and must not be changed there
after except by specific authorit
of such postmaster.
6. AS soon as possible aftt
completing the assignment I
: box numbers on route the pos
master will furnish each be
owner with the official number
his box, and request that tn
number be at once legibly ar
durably inscribed in a conspi
uous place on the outside of Il
box.
7. Boxes served regularly
more than one route must,
cases where such double servi
is duly authorized, be Civ
in regular consecutive order
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