HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 2947RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL CF THE CITY CF
LODI, CALIFORNIA fG CURBSIDE DELIVERY
CE MAIL BY THE 6kii •D STATES P CS T OFFICE-
WHEREAS,
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WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City Council
of the City of Lodi that the United States Post Office Department
by regulation is denying door to door mail delivery services to
homes built in new subdivisions unless a rural type mailbox is
provided at the curb by each home owner; and
WHEREAB9 by this arbitrary regulation the work done in new
subdivisions in requiring underground utilities is completely
frustrated; and
WHEREAS, rural type mailboxes destroy the aesthetic beauty
which this city has sought to develop in its new subdivisions;
and
WHEREAS, such an arbitrary policy on the part of the Post
Office Department is rank discrimination against new hone owners
who will be forced to put rural ty e mailboxes in front of their
new homes which is not demanded ofpother property owners; and
WHEREAS, the location of mailboxes at curbside will increase
the temptation to tamper and pilfer the United States mail;
NOW THEREFORE, KE IT RFSOLVID that the City Council of the
City of Lodi does hereby go on record as opposing the Post Office
Department reeulation requiring curbside mailboxes and does lain
with all other interested agencies and parties in encouraging
that appropriate action be taken to bring about a reversal of
the curbside mailbox rule by the United States Post Office Depart-
ment.
BE IT FURTHER RE9CLvM that the City Clerk be and is hereby
directed to send certified copies of this resolution to all
interested parties and agencies in order to present the position
of the City of Lodi with respect to this arbitrary and capricious
ruling by the United States Post Office Department.
Dated: May 18, 1966
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was
passed and adopted by the City Council of the City
of Lodi, California, m regular meeting held May 18,
1966, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen BROWN, CULBERTS ON , HUNNELL and
WALT Obi
NOES: Councilman KIRSTi
ABS: None ;x171'
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