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   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.   
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     ../|ug   
      
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