The Washington times. [volume], September 06, 1922, HOME FINAL EDITION, Page 15, Image 16

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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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Get This Mail Box-FREE to
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?
route. -
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.
All-Glass Mail Box
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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Sunday paper one of these OFFICIAL mail boxes FREE.
MAIL THE COUPON ON THIS PAGE today, enclosing
ONE DOLLAR as evidence of good faith and in fairness to
our other subscribers. THE DOLLAR WILL BE DE
DUCTED FROM YOUR PAPER BILL THE THIRD
month, giving you the mail box FREE.
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