Rural Free Delivery (RFD), since 1906 officially rural delivery, is a program of the United States Post Office Department to deliver mail directly to rural destinations. The program began in the …

The USPS provides guidelines and policies for rural delivery, including mailbox placement, road conditions, and customer responsibilities.

The Department also had an opportunity to see what else was needed to make the service successful: good roads, standardized mailboxes, and a “great army of rural carriers” — about …

The barrel–shaped mailbox advertised by the Century Post Company was patented by A.M. Keeney of Adrian, Michigan in 1901 and assigned to the Century Post Company. The …

When Rural Free Delivery Service began, first as an experiment in 1896 and later as an official service in 1902, patrons looked around their homes and farms for anything they could find to …

1896: Rural free delivery (RFD) began as an experiment. Some customers used homemade wooden boxes as mailboxes, while others used old cigar boxes, soap and feed boxes, …

RFD Mail Boxes -The Early Years This exhibit chronicles the history of Rural Free Delivery Mail Boxes during the early years of the RFD Service by tracing the promulgation and …

Rural Free Delivery (RFD) was established on an experimental basis in 1896. In 1902, it became an official part of the Post Office Department’s services. Postal inspectors were critical to the …

2010年4月2日 · After 1891 rural routes were slowly established across the nation by the U.S. post office that by law provided free delivery to rural homes. Thus was born the acronym RFD. …

In that year the Post Office Department established rural mail delivery (RFD). It was a massive and costly undertaking that took years to fully implement nation-wide. Once established, …