Chapter 899. To enable the Postmaster General to purchase and erect community mail boxes on rural routes and to rent compartments of such boxes to patrons of rural delivery
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Chap. 899: To enable the Postmaster General to purchase and erect community mail boxes on rural routes and to rent compartments of such boxes to patrons of rural delivery. Chapter 899 45 Stat. 985 1928-05-29 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 899.— An Act To enable the Postmaster General to purchase and erect community mail boxes on rural routes and to rent compartments of such boxes to patrons of rural delivery.
May 29, 1928.[[H. R. 12605](/us/bill/70/hr/12605).][[Public, No. 609](/us/pl/70/609).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Postal Service.Purchase, etc., authorized for community mail boxes, etc., on rural mail routes. That under such regulations as he may provide the Postmaster General be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase community boxes with separate compartments for incoming and outgoing mail and to erect and maintain such community boxes and suitable sheltered racks or stands for rural mail boxes, in such selected localities as he may determine.
The units of said boxes and space in said racks or stands shall beRental to patrons of rural service. rented at their option to patrons of the Rural Delivery Service at such monthly or annual rates as the Postmaster General shall determine, based on the cost of installation and maintenance. The costCost payable from rural delivery appropriation. of such installation and maintenance of said community boxes and sheltered stands, not exceeding $2,000 per annum, shall hereafter be paid from the appropriation for rural delivery.
Approved, May 29, 1928.
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To enable the Postmaster General to purchase and erect community mail boxes on rural routes and to rent compartments of such boxes to patrons of rural delivery
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