Webpostal officials encouraged rural free delivery (rfd) carriers to replace their horses and wagons with the latest in transportation technology. This unidentified carrier painted his. Mailboxes of all sizes and shapes lined the gallery. When rural free delivery service began, first as an experiment in 1896 and later as an official service in. Webthe early years saw many rural patrons using an array of random contraptions as mailboxes, making general mail deliveries difficult for the carrier (and, depending on the.
