Subj : Canada Post no longer rai
To   : Rob Mccart
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 10 2025 11:30:00

Hello Rob Mccart!

** On Sunday 10.08.25 - 08:40, Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL:

 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
 MP>> have never known of the postman to raise the flag after
 MP>> putting mail in the box.

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

Same here.. I've never known that the flag was to indicate  
"outgoing mail only".   Eversince we had a mailbox at the end  
of the road, the flag was to indicate that something is inside.  
 .: after a mail run, a raised flag was the signal that "you've  
got mail!"  ;)

Anyway.. a walk out to the mailbox just to check doesn't do any  
harm, only good.
-- 
  ../|ug

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