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Special Delivery Service
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Handbook M-41, TL-4, 03-01-98
Update With Postal Bulletin Revisions
Through April 5, 2001
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741
Businesses
741.1
Ring bell or knock several times. If
there is a response, make personal
delivery to the addressee or his
representative if delivery is not restricted (see
section 335.13).
741.2
If there is no response and it is
indicated that the occupants are only
temporarily absent, place the article
in the mail receptacle and leave a
completed Form 3849 in the receptacle
(see exhibit 741.2).
Exhibit 741.2
741.3
Do not pass the article through a door
slot of an obviously vacant address.
741.4
Leave only ordinary special delivery
articles. If articles are accountable mail
such as registered, insured, COD, etc.,
(see subchapter 33) or if the article is
too large to be placed in the mail
receptacle, return it to the post office and
leave a completed Form 3849. Place the
notice in the receptacle.
742
742.1
Make delivery to residence of customers
served through a box erected on the
boundary line (i.e.,
out-of-bounds box) if the customer does not reside
more
than three blocks beyond and if there
is a passable walk or street.
742.2
If there is no response, place a
completed Form 3849 in the mailbox and
leave the article in the box (except
accountable mail) if the box will