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From: faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Filing a Complaint
Message-ID: <2015@hplabs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 15:31:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 15:31:47 1986
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> 
> 2)	I get lots and lots of mail everyday.  My house has a rather standard,
> 	small residential type mailbox with two little arms underneath for
> 	magazines, etc.  They generally cram all the mail into the box and
> 	skewer my magazine covers on the little arms, puncturing and tearing
> 	the covers.  All the large envelopes are folded in half and stuffed in
> 	with the mail, not the magazines.  (Maybe I'm compulsive, but I find
> 	folded and wrinkled literature and so forth very annoying.)  
> 
> 	I want to build a plywood box large enough to hold the largest mail
> 	I get, and deep enough to hold three or four days worth of the amount
> 	of mail I usually get.  Friends tell me that it is illegal to deliver
> 	to a mailbox not certified by theGrand PooBah General in DC, so if
> 	I put up my own box, I would have to pick up my mail at the PO.  
> 	Is this true?  If I were to submit blueprints to DC for approval, I
> 	would probably have retired by the time I got a response.
> 

I'd suggest not antagonizing the PO, but you should check out a #1 or
#2 rural mailbox.  They're pretty good sized, and approved.  Also,
you could certainly put a plywood box next to your normal mailbox,
and hope they use it.  Mail that's too big for the box usually gets
left nearby, at least at my house, so a convenient receptacle would
probably get used.  You might also check with your delivery person
about what they like.  Apparently, being able to open the box with
one hand, and then having it stay open until closed is highly
desirable.
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