[Sidenote: Sign.]
The words "Post Office," in large and conspicuous letters, should be
exhibited outside every building in which a Post Office is kept.
[Sidenote: Letter Box.]
A Letter Box should also be fixed, with an opening accessible from the
road or street, the words "Letter Box" being painted over the same in
plain legible characters.
[Sidenote: Separate office.]
A separate office or apartment, conveniently fitted up for the purpose,
should be provided by the postmaster for conducting the business
wherever the duties are sufficiently extensive or important to require
such accommodation. The internal fittings of the office should vary
according to the nature of the duties.
[Sidenote: Lobby.]
At every principal office there should be a lobby or standing place
within doors for the accommodation of parties applying at the office.
[Sidenote: Where separate office not required.]
Where the Postmaster General may consider that a separate room may be
dispensed with, the letters and papers, both for delivery and despatch,
are to be kept in a secure place, and, if practicable, under lock and
key.
[Sidenote: Bar-room not to be used.]
A bar-room or public room in a tavern is never to be made use of as a
post office, nor should the entrance to a post office be through a
bar-room.
[Sidenote: Unauthorized persons.]
No person except the postmaster or his sworn assistant should, on any
pretence whatever, be allowed to have access to the letters and papers
in a post office.
[Sidenote: Situation.]
A Post Office should be in a convenient and central situation, and must
not be removed from one part of a town, village, or settlement, to
another without the approval first obtained of the Postmaster General.
[Sidenote: Protection.]
Postmasters are required to take every precaution to secure their
offices against burglary and fire.
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