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- Rural Free Delivery Mailbox, 1900-1916 - In the early years of rural mail delivery, farmers could use whatever was at hand as a mailbox -- pails, cans, or wooden crates. When rural free delivery became permanent and universal in 1902, the United States Post Office required rural customers to have regulation mailboxes in order to receive their mail.
- 1900-1916
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Rural Free Delivery Mailbox, 1900-1916
In the early years of rural mail delivery, farmers could use whatever was at hand as a mailbox -- pails, cans, or wooden crates. When rural free delivery became permanent and universal in 1902, the United States Post Office required rural customers to have regulation mailboxes in order to receive their mail.