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135.7 Highway Contract Routes — Contract Delivery Service 135.7 Communication With Customers Suppliers must be able to communicate effectively with the Administrative Officials and with their customers. Suppliers must cooperate with Administrative Officials to ensure that customers are aware of the following: a. Customers must file complaints on mail service with the postmaster and not with the supplier. b. Suppliers will dismount when necessary to transact business involving delivery of Registered Mail, Certified Mail, Insured Mail, COD, Standard Post, Priority Mail Express, and other special services (See 333.4, Dismounting). c. Requests for service changes, box relocation requests, PS Forms 4027, Petition for Change in Rural Delivery, etc., must be filed with the postmaster. d. Customers’ boxes must be placed so that they may be safely and conveniently served by the carriers and must be located on the right side of the road in the direction of travel. e. Boxes must conform to postal regulations. Mailboxes are installed at a height of 41 to 45 inches from the road surface to the bottom of the mailbox or point of mail entry. f. Customers are responsible for keeping approaches to mailboxes clear of snow, ice, mud, parked vehicles, or other obstructions. g. When more than one family uses a box, written agreement to such use must be filed with the postmaster. The number of families permitted to use a single box is limited to five. Customers may use locks on boxes, providing the box has a slot large enough to accommodate the normal daily mail volume. The supplier will neither open boxes that are locked, nor accept keys for this purpose. All other information as deemed appropriate by the Administrative Official. 12 Handbook SP-1
2 Service Changes 21 Existing Contract 211 Requirements 211.1 Initiation The supplier, plant manager, customer service district manager, or Administrative Official may initiate recommendations for service changes. The Manager, Transportation Contracts, must be provided with all relevant information. 211.2 Route Extensions 211.21 Policy Postal Service policy is that contract delivery service extensions will be made in a timely manner. Extension will not be made until approved by the Manager, Operations Programs Support. 211.22 Petitions for Extensions Submit petitions for route extensions on PS Form 4027. Extensions should serve an average of at least one new residence per mile, including retrace (new residence is defined as an address where delivery has not been established previously). Extensions are not allowed to improve existing service, or to provide door-to-door curbside service, or service over private roads, driveways, or lanes. Delivery will not be extended into cul-de-sacs unless local factors such as lot size, driveway and apron paving dimensions, and public road acceptance indicate a clear and safe line of travel. Where cul-de-sac extension is practical, establish boxes at one location in the throat of the cul-de-sac if possible based on local conditions. Otherwise, curbside boxes or authorized collection box units (CBUs) and parcel lockers approved by the Postal Service should be erected at the intersection of the cul-de-sac on the contract carrier’s existing line of travel. Each proposal must be evaluated on its individual merits. New boxes will be located on the right-hand side of the road in the direction of travel by the carrier. Curbside boxes will be clustered, if possible. July 2013 13
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