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A roadside mail box formed of an L-shaped tubular member erected with the “L”inverted and having a mail compartment in its horizontal leg. In a preferred embodiment, a closure sleeve, closed at one end, is coaxially, rotatably disposed on the horizontal leg. Respective elongated openings on the side

A roadside mail box formed of an L-shaped tubular member erected with the “L”inverted and having a mail compartment in its horizontal leg. In a preferred embodiment, a closure sleeve, closed at one end, is coaxially, rotatably disposed on the horizontal leg. Respective elongated openings on the side of the horizontal leg and in the sidewall of the sleeve, register at one rotational position of the sleeve to permit access to the mail compartment and, in other rotational positions of the sleeve, are out of registration to close the compartment. Detents establish open and closed positions of the sleeve which is pendulously urged to the closed position. In alternative forms of construction the closure sleeve is absent and a sliding or hinged door closes the opening to the mail compartment.

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A roadside mail receptacle of the rural delivery type, comprising: a hollow member of L-shaped configuration, at least the horizontal leg of the L-shape being of substantially circular cross-section; a transverse partition in said horizontal leg remote from the free end thereof and defining therein

A roadside mail receptacle of the rural delivery type, comprising: a hollow member of L-shaped configuration, at least the horizontal leg of the L-shape being of substantially circular cross-section; a transverse partition in said horizontal leg remote from the free end thereof and defining therein a mail compartment; means defining an opening in the horizontal leg for the insertion and removal of mail into and from said compartment; and a cylindrical closure sleeve, closed at one end, coaxially rotatably disposed on said horizontal leg and having a sidewall opening adapted, in one rotational position of the sleeve, to register with the opening in said horizontal leg.