Show ROOSEVELT POST OFFICE your attention Is to an or der front from the post office department under date of august 9 1921 which reads as follows you are instructed to collect box rents at your post office at the rates stated below from october 1 1921 11 lock boxes small 45 per quarter lock boxes medium 60 per quarter lock boxes large 75 per quarter box rent must be paid strictly in advance id vance the rent asnon v due and aballe before september 30 As so many children show the com oi nation of their parents box to othar children thus giving other people access to your box bos and to any mail that may come to you I 1 ask as has ocen oc en asked before in this paper that box bot users have the combination of their box boic changed occasionally nally and also that they see their children do not show others how to open their box boi small children should not have access to boxes As rapidly as can be effected commencing october 1 the combination of each box will be changed As school has just commenced I 1 would further ask that parents instruct their children not to ask for he mail except as they come coma home rein school in the past the small school children have been in the babit of calling for mail at morning re ess noon and night often several children from the sanie same family call each day this works an unnecessary hardship on the post office force orce mail Is often taken to school and lost and the postmaster is some times blamed for such loss it if but one member of a family of children were designated deigna ted to get the mail each day sad and that only on coming coining from school better service to all concerned would result because of a of ahe regulations governing special delivery mall mail some parties have recently been put to trouble and have made stater statements rients from which rumors have spread reflecting on the postal service I 1 take the liberty of 0 quoting part of 0 the regulations as published in the july 1921 postal guide special delivery mall mail will to in the future be delivered without receipts and will be left in regular mall mail re when personal delivery can not be effected at the bums bame time emphasizing the fact that the special delivery system is s designed to expedite cinq not to safeguard mall mail that the registry system Is provided to insure safety and that mail con currency or other articles of 0 value should invariably be e registered 1 when it Is desired to send money or other valuable by special delivery the matter matter should also be registered or insured A special delivery stamp does not insure safety nor personal delivery to the party rt addressed J K R LAMBERT LAM BErIT postmaster |