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Special Delivery Service

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

• 737 For vehicles, see chapter 8.
   
• 74 Street Work
   
• 741 Delivery to Apartments, Residences, and 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 Delivery to Out-of-Bounds Boxes
   
• 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