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Office Time -- Preparation

Handbook M-41, TL-4, 03-01-98
Update With Postal Bulletin Revisions Through April 5, 2001

223.11 Withdraw letter mail from city distribution cases unless mail has already been placed on carrier's case ledge by a mail handler or clerk.
223.12 Place letter mail on carrier case ledge with stamps down, facing to the right side of ledge.

223.13 Obtain mail from tray cart or hamper when mail is so provided.
223.14 If mail is received in bundles, open the bundles and place mail on ledge. Deposit facing slips and twine in waste receptacles.
223.15 Keep First-Class separate from Periodicals, but make no attempt to separate them if they are mixed.
223.16 In offices under expedited preferential mail system, a city carrier normally sorts only preferential and time-value mail before leaving to serve his route. Casing of non-preferential mail is done in the afternoon when he returns to the delivery unit.

223.21 Withdraw magazines, papers, and other flat mail from flat cases and place neatly in basket or on floor at case when they are not at carrier case upon reporting. Don't obstruct aisle space or create a tripping hazard.
223.22 If the flats for your route are received in sacks, remove the flats promptly, and stack neatly on the floor or in hampers when provided. Examine sacks after dumping to insure that sacks are empty. Place empty sacks in the designated receptacle after removing sack labels.

224.11 Study for a few minutes the streets and numbers in the order the route is served, from left side of lowest shelf of letter separations to right side of top shelf.