Talk:Rural delivery service

Merge
Rural Letter Carrier and this article (Rural delivery service) should be merged. JubalHarshaw 15:59, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

These two articles should be merged, they go together, and by themselves are small. --Mrath 06:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I'd agree. Further, other countries apparently have the same concept; see Rural Mail Box.  We might want to have a final, merged article with a name like Rural mail (US Post), and then perhaps create a dab page pointing to the various global post offices which use this concept.  —DragonHawk (talk) 17:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I'd agree that other countries seem to have a similar concept in the sense that delivering letters in rural areas is treated differently than non-rural. Rural Mail Box though seems different to a delivery service in that it is a way of writing an address, not a method of delivery of mail.FrankSier (talk) 23:54, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Yes, they should merge. The rural delivery entry is very compact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.13.132 (talk • contribs) 04:55, July 30, 2007

I disagree, or rather, agree as long as Rural Free Delivery has its own subcatagory. I'm typing up old letters from the early 1900s and they put RFD on the letters. RFC wasn't a "stamp" so to speak, but RFD was and was required for proper delivery. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.10.105.236 (talk) 18:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Unmerged
By 2010, with enough content about the service and the carriers available, the formerly merged article is now separated. 68.165.77.179 (talk) 01:10, 12 April 2010 (UTC).

Name change etc to explicitly US and remove globalize template?
There is a template on this article saying it should be globalized as it mainly deals with United States. Maybe a better solution would be to make it explicitly a United States article by a change of title and of the introductory sentence. What do others think? FrankSier (talk) 00:02, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I just did so, turning this into a stub for the global topic and moving all the USA-specific details to a redirect. 67.100.127.45 (talk) 05:56, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Set me free
There appears to be a contradiction between pages on when free delivery began in cities. This page 1858 ("33 years before" 1891); this page says 1863. Which is it? TREKphiler  any time you're ready, Uhura  05:13, 11 September 2011 (UTC)