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   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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