HomeMy WebLinkAbout1966 155 CC RESO1966 155 CC RESOàK Ò F RESOLUTION NO. 66^1^5
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK OPPOSING
CURBS IDE DELIVERY OF MAIL BY THE
UNITED STATES POST OFFICE
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City Council of
the City of Baldwin Park 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
WHEREAS/ by this arbitrary regulation the work done in new
subdivisions in retiring underground utilities is completely frustrated,
and
WHEREAS, rural type mailboxes destroy the aesthetic beauty
which the 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 home owners who
will be forced to put rural type mailboxes in front of their new
homes which is not demanded of other property owners, and
WHEREAS, the location of mailboxes at curbside will increase
the temptation to tamper and pilfer the United States mail,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the
City of Baldwin Park does hereby go on record as opposing the Post
Office Department regulation requiring curbside mailboxes and does
join with all other interested agencies artd parties in encouraging
that appropriate action be taken to bring about a reversal of the
curbside mailbox rule by the United States Post Office Department.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk be and is hereby
directed to send certified copies of thts Resolution to alt interested
parties and agencies in order to present the position of the City of
Baldwin Park with respect to this arbitrary and capricious ruling by
the United States Post Office Department.
PASSED and APPROVED thia 1st day of June 1966.
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Thelma L. Balkus, City t:lerk
W
Car on, Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) SS.
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
1, THELMA L. BALKUS, City Clerk of the City of Baldwin
Park, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly
adopted by the City Council of the City of Baldwin Park and signed
by its Mayor at a_____regular meeting held on the 1st
day of June____, 1966, by the following vote:
AYE S: COUNC I LN£N_, MCREHEAD. CR1TES. ADAIR. AND JUAYOR CCARQN
NOES: COUNCILMEN NONE_______________
ABSENT: COUNCILAftEN^ GREGORY
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Thelma L. Bafkus, City Clerk
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