CC - 1966 - 41 - Opposing Curbside Delivery of Mail0 0
RESOLUTION N0. 66-41
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF-ROSEMEAD OPPOSING CURBSIDE
DELIVERY OF MAIL BY THE UNITED STATES
POST OFFICE.
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City-Council
of the City of Rosemead that the United States Post Office
Department by regulation is denying door to door mail delivery
services to homes built in new subdivisions unless a rural type
mailbox is provided at the curb by each home owner, and
WHEREAS, by this arbitrary regulation the work done in
new subdivisions in requiring underground utilities is completely
frustrated, and
WHEREAS, rural type mailboxes destroy the aesthetic
beauty which the City has sought to develop in its new sub-
divisions, and
WHEREAS, such an arbitrary policy on the part of the
Post Office Department is rank discrimination against new home
owners who will be forced to put rural type mailboxes in front
of their new homes which is not demanded of other property
owners, and
WHEREAS, the location of mailboxes at curbside will
increase the temptation to tamper and pilfer the United States
mail,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of
the City of Rosemead does hereby go on record as opposing the
Post Office Department regulation requiring curbside mailboxes
and does join with all other interested agencies and parties
in encouraging that appropriate action be taken to bring about
a reversal of the curbside mailbox rule by the United States
Post Office Department.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk be and is
hereby directed to send certified copies of this Resolution
to all interested parties and agencies in order to present
the position of the City of Rosemead with respect to this
arbitrary and capricious ruling by the United States Post
Office Department.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 24th day of May, 1966.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK