The Yale expositor., 1905-10-06
NUMBERING BOXES.
Numbering of Rural Mail Boxes Ordered

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| To POSTMASTERS:
For public convenience and to facili-
tate more accurate handling of mail
| by rural free delivery carriers, il has
| been decided that each rural mail box
| in use on a 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 hereinafter set forth; and the
| delivery by rural carriers of ordinary
mail matter of all classes addressed to
such boxes by number alone is author
| lied so long as improper and unlawful
business is not conducted thereby
/. Postmasters at the respective dis
| tributing offices are hereby directed to
! instruct the carriers of all rural free
delivery routes which have been operat-
ed 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, 1908, and
report which of them conform to the
regulations and are thus entitled to
designative numbers.
,. The following, when found to be
safe, weatherproof, and fit receptacles
for mail, are entitled to numbers (a)
Boxes approved under order No. 739;
October l, 1902.
3. No non weatherproofO or otherwise
unfit receptacles for mail shall be num-
bered 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 a pOstOtlice
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.
!. The numbers assigned to boxes
ON each route will commence with No.
!, which will pertain to the first regula-
ton 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 I'm regular sequence in order OF
service from No. TO and including all
those boxes entitled to service located
on the route.
). Each number thus arrived at
should be recorded in the carriers roster
book opposite the name of the owner
of the box so designated, and also OPP
posite the name OF every other person
entitled to receive mail in said box.
Numbers thus applied to boxes and reg
istered must be promptly reported to
and recorded by lhe postmaster of the
distributing office TO which they belong
and must not be changed thereafter
except by specific authority Of such
postmaster.
6. As soon as possible after complet
ing the assignment of box numbers on
a route the postmaster will furnish
each box owner with the official num-
Der of his box, and request that this
number be at once legibly and durably
| inscribed in a conspicuous place on the
outside Of the box.
Z. Boxes served regularly by more
| than one route must, in cases where
such double service in duly authorized,
| be given numbers in regular consecu-
! tive order on each route. by the method
prescribed in the preceding paragraphs
! for numbering boxes served by but one
carrier.
s. New boxes erected subsequent to
the original numbering, between those
already in position on a route and con-
| S6cutlYely numbered, Will be designated
by applying thereto in the regular
order the next consecutive numbers
shown, by therecOrd Of numbered boxes
already on the route, to be unused.
9. The work of numbering boxes on
newly established routes must not be
undertaken until the great majority
are permanently in place. Not less than
sixty days should elapse, however, after
service begins, 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
punctually entered up and promptly re-
ported to pOstmasters. The latter must
carefully oversee the work of carriers,
and also maintain in their offices ac-
curate and complete lists of names and
box numbers of all patrons of each
route attached to their offices.
II. Any instructions issued by this
Office conflicting with this order are
| hereby revoked.
II. On receipt of this communica-
ton postmasters will give it the widest
possible publicity to patrons of the
rural service, without expense to the
Departmental. V. DeGRAW, Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General.
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