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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: mailboxes
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Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 09:13:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 09:13:47 1986
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>	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 have heard this too--but it may be apocryphal.  Because I have also
seen some very strange rural mailboxes.  In Nebraska that's one thing
farmers love to do is put up an original, personalized mailbox.  And ours
is a slot in the side of the house.   I can't imagine someone sending that
in to Washington.  (By the way, that's *really* the way to get crunched-up
mail)  Why not call your postmaster?  It may be as simple as showing it 
to a postal inspector to certify that it will keep the rain out.  You can 
complain about the delivery at the same time--it won't do any good, but you 
will feel better.

By the way, I have seen *incredibly huge* mailboxes for sale in stores.
Ones that would make good doghouses.  That might be your answer.
-- 

                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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