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This Is Official Edict of Postmaster General

If you have no mail box, your mail will accumulate at the general delivery office and

it will be necessary for you to call for the same. Avoid this great inconvenience

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R.nrintad From Dally Paper.

NO BOX, NO MAIL!

IS POSTAL RULING

Carriers Instructed to Pass

AU New Houses Not Hav

ing Receptacles.

BARTLETT ISSUES ORDER

Hundreds of Washingtoniane

Hit by Drastic Require

ment?Better Service

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No mall box?no mail.

That 1? the edict that went forth

from the Post Office Department to

day a? the firat atep to enforce th?

Installation of mail boxes or recep

tacles at residences.

Such homes as do not providb re

ceptacles will not have mail deliv

ered to them. It was announced. For

the present the order will be enforc

ed against new homes, which, if not

so equipped, will be refused carrier

service.

Waahlngtonlans by the hundreds

who have moved Into newly built

houses will have to provide mall

boxes on their front ? porches or go

without delivery.

Bartlett Explain? Role.

"Carrier delivery should not be ex

tended to any new dwelling? erected

In your city not equipped with a

suitable receptacle." First Assistant

Postmaster General Bartlett declared

in an order issued today to postmas

ters throughout the country.

"When a patron change? his resi

dence also he will be required to pro

vide a r?ceptacle ?t hi? new address

before being ' accorded delivery serv

ice." Gov. Bartlett continued. He

urged postmaatera to make every ef

fort to induce citizens to install mail

receptacle? at their front door?, so

that city carrier? would not have to

stop and ring doorbells or wait for

maids to answer the doors.

Absence of the home mall boxes

not only tends to Inconvenience the

patrons, the first assistant declared,

but. 1? directly responsible for In

ferior servir? through delaying the

carrier In making the round? of hi?

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Urces Patrons To Help.

"We have never enforced the home

mall box proposition, but the time

haa com? when we have to make a

move in that direction," Mr. Bartlett

?aid. "The poetai service is intensely

co-operative, th? patrons have their

part to play, and this Is one thing

they can do to help us help them."

Gov. Bartlett stated that In cas?

there were twelve new horn?? in a

row, and ton of the householders had

mall receptacles Installed at their

front doors, and two of them did not.

the obedient ten will get their mall,

but the disobedient two will have the

letter carrier pas? them by.

K.printed From Dally Paper

PRIVATE MAIL BOX

IS AID TO CARRIER

Apartment dwellers may get real

mall delivery at last.

First Assistant Postmaster General

Bartlett ?aid today that If everybody

In Waahlngon would install mail

boxe? at front door?, he thought the

department would be able to deliver

mall to each Individual apartment aa

a result of the time saved by carriers.

This is one of the first develop

ments tiv??> the "No box-no mail" or

der IssuedTiy Gov. Bartlett yesterday.

In which postmasters were instructed

to deliver no mail to new dwellings

without boxes.

At present the Washington city

post office doe? not accord individual

delivery to thoee who live In apart

ment?, carrier? merely placing letters

In the mail boxea In the first floor

entrance ball.

Postmaster Chance, for several

years, has been jtrylng to Induce the

Post Office Department to grant him

additional carriers, ao that delivery

of mall may be made to each apart

ment , from floor to floor.

The speeding up of the malls, which

would accrue If every householder In

Waahlngton. In old or new houses,

had a mall box at hi? front door,

would enable the department, GoV.

Bartlett believe?, to afford the door

to-door delivery of mall in apart

ment?, without any additional cost

to the postal service, perhaps.

Installation of boxes at all front

door?, or slots cut In the doors, so that

mailmen may drop letters Into the

house, would be of great benefit to the

householder?. Gov. Bartlett pointed

out today.

One of the biggeat gains to the home,

he said, in addition to the early de

livery which everybody would get

each day, would lie in the service

which the postmen would render

households In mailing letters.

Just put your letters to be mailed

In your home mailbox, It was pointed

out, and the carrier, on his trips, <

would collect the mall from the boxe?

as he delivered. Thus, were an en?

tire city completely equipped with

home mall boxea, atreet mall boxe?

might become unnecessary.

The beet opinion at the Poet Office

Department today waa that th? order

of "no box?no mall" is entirely legal,

th? department not being under com

pulsion to deliver mall except when

ft? rule? end regulations are compiled

with.

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Made of the best quality heavy

Cry stai Glass, equipped with extra

heavy double lid? well protected

with black enamel?

Can be fastened to wall or any

convenient place.

Screw holes so placed that box

cannot be removed when lid is

locked

Not necessary to go out and raise

lid to see whether you have any

mail, as contents of. this ALL

GLASS MAIL BOX can be seen

as far as the eye can see?

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