Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — A Mailbox Sleuth. [ARTICLE]

A Mailbox Sleuth.

A new electric letterbox on exhibition last week in Washington, if adopted by the Government, would make life anything but pleasant and comfortable for the careless or unlucky carrier. The electric letterbox registers at the main postoffice each time a collection is made, so that it is impossible for a carrier in making his rounds ,to skip a single box without being instantly detected. Worse yet, if one letter is left in the box the electric attachment promptly records that fact at the main office, and the carrier is liable to thirty days’ suspension for undue haste and negligence.