Arizona republican., 1921-10-19
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 IF PHOENIX HOUSES WITH NJ MAIL BOXES

If you desire to receive mail, why not extend to your correspondents Nle courtesy of having a receptacle for the receipt of their communica- tions? It is due to them to give them the satisfaction of knowing that their letters are being delivered prop erly after they have been written?
 With the foregoing thought as the slogan of the campaign, the postof- flee department will begin today throughout the United States and particularly in Phoenix, where the need of the work is declared to be urgent, census of the people who have no receptacles for mail matter, whose houses or places of business are without numbers or are incor- rectly numbered, or whose offices have no slots in the doors for mail matter.
 All the mail carriers are to make notation of the houses and business blocks that are incorrectly num- bered or which have no numbers. and also those which have proper receptacies for mail matter. As an indication of the carelessness which has distinguished Phoenix business men with regard to assisting the postoffice department in the proper delivery of mail. John Giffen. super intendent of mails at the local post office, has compiled a list of more than 100 business firms in this city which are not numbered. and another :, list, also containing more than 100 names, of business houses which are incorrectly numbered. In connee- ton with this condition, Superintend- l ent Giffen yesterday referred to the city ordinance. section of ordinance $50, which provides a fine of s5 for these offences.
 That there may be no excuse for | those whose houses are without 7 proper mail receptacles after this census. the women of the Junior Guild of Trinity cathedral will sell mail boxes in front of the postoffice during the campaign. The proceeds of this sale are to go to the day nursery.
 With regard to the business firms which have no numbers, 1t is pointed out that many of these same firms put their location numbers on their stationery and advertising matter 1 and permit the public to wander up and down the street in a vain effort to find them. Offices in the down town district are also offenders, it is said. against the postoffice depart ment in not having slots in the doors through which mail matter may be | passed.
 That the general public may have a definite idea of what the census is and why it is being conducted, the postoffice department has issued the following brief circular:
 The postoffice department invites your attention to the benefits to be derived from the use of private mail receptacles. Such recepatcles, in the form of a box or a slot in the door, obviate the necessity of patrons re- spending to the carriers call at in convenient moments, permit the safe delivery of mail at all times. and contribute materially to the efficiency of the service. When not compelled to await a response to his ring, the carrier is enabled to cover his route more expeditiously and make prompter deliveries, especially to
 those residing near the end of his route. With a safe place in which
 to deposit the mail at all times, the carrier is enabled to reduce to a , minimum the amount of mail re- ! turned to the office because of the
 temporary absence of patrons or fail
 ure to get prompt response to his ring.
 Your prompt attention to this
 matter will result in improved serv- ice to your entire community and bt
 appreciated by the department"