Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!linus!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: mailboxes Message-ID: <115@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 13:55:03 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.115 Posted: Fri Jan 24 13:55:03 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jan-86 04:42:35 EST References: <302@drutx.UUCP> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 35 Summary: In article <302@drutx.UUCP> slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes: >> ...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. > >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. ... Most of the custom mailboxes I've seen were actually shells built around approved type mailboxes. Keep in mind the P.O. is an enormous bureaucracy, run mostly by petty bureaucrats, and they can get _very_ picky about rules and regs if they want to. The slot in the wall box is a common type found all over the country. The original design was approved by the P.O. long ago. One type that's no longer approved is the slot at the bottom of a door. Too many carriers were filing workman's comp. claims for back problems. (When I worked as a mail carrier one summer I had to deliver to a whole neighboorhood of these. _Not_ my favorite route). >By the way, I have seen *incredibly huge* mailboxes for sale in stores. >Ones that would make good doghouses. That might be your answer. Probably the simplest solution. -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp(+)TTI 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Geniuses are people so lazy they Santa Monica, CA 90405 do everything right the first time. (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe