Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1917 — Do You Aid the Mail Carrier On Your Route? [ARTICLE]

Do You Aid the Mail Carrier On Your Route?

Many patrons on rural free delivery routes are not as careful and accommodating as they should be in locating their boxes at convenient places and keeping approaches of them in good condition. At some of them it takes more time to ret to the boxes and more gasoline to pull in and out of the mudholes and ruts m front of them than it would take to run a mile on good roads. This ought not to be. It would take only a little time and trouble on the part of each patron to place his box in a convenient place and see to it that the approaches were always kept in good condition, and this little effort on the part of each would result in better and quicker service on the part of the earners. A new regulation just issued by the rural route department of the mail service, reads as follows: “Eich box shall, if practicable, be erected on the right hand side of tne road regularly traveled by a rural carrier and in such position as to be easily and safely accessible for the delivery and collection of mail by the carrier without leaving his conveyance. Patrons shall .as far as practicaole, keep clean the approaches to their boxes by promptly removing obstr jetions which may render difficult or impossible the delivery of mail by the carrier.” New boxes erected, or boxes removed by the patrons from one route to another must conform to the regulations established by the department last July.