Subj : Canada Post no longer rai
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Aug 10 2025 08:40:24

AA>> "The purpose of the Signal Device/Red Flag on rural mailboxes
  >> is for customers to inform the delivery agents there is
  >> outgoing mail to be picked up from the mailbox,"

MP>That is what it has always meant here in the states.  I have never known of
  >the postman to raise the flag after putting mail in the box.

I grew up in a very rural farming area - we didn't farm but we had
a few acres and horses - and the mailbox was a fair ways from the
house and the mailman used to put the flag up if he left you mail
saving you a walk out there for nothing..

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