Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1909 — Put Tour Mail Box Near the Wagon Road. [ARTICLE]

Put Tour Mail Box Near the Wagon Road.

The postoffice department has begun investigation about the positions of the mail boxes along rural routes, with a view to expediting the carrying service. Each carrier will be required to make report through his postmaster of the position of ever# mail box on his route, and where the boxes are so situated as to cause the carrier to drive out of his way, or to drive through muddy places. The patrons will be notified to reset the boxes wherever they are out of the way. They must not be attached to telephone or telegraph poles nor to fences, but to neat, strong posts of proper height. If the defects are not corrected the carrier will be unable to deliver the mail to those that do not meet the requirements.