In the U. S., postal workers are represented by the National Postal Mail Handlers Union-NPMHU, the National Association of Rural Letter Carriers and the American Postal Workers Union, part of the AFL-CIO.

U. S. Rural Free Mail Delivery to curbside mailbox, circa 1905

Rural Community Mail Box ( CMB ) Station in Canada

With the inception of Rural Free Delivery of the U. S. Mail, some names were changed to avoid confusion from duplications and similarities.

In 2003, CUPW successfully completed the organizing of approximately 6, 000 Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers ( RSMC ) into the Union and won a first collective agreement for these workers.

In 1985 Fager began work for the US Postal Service, first as a substitute Rural Mail Carrier, and then as a Mailhandler, until mid-1994.

Rural Route and Suburban Mail for the residents is now handled out of the Bowmanville Post office.

The first two digits specify the area, the third digit specifies the type of delivery ( street, PO Box, Private Bag, or Rural delivery ), and the last digit specifies the specific lobby, RD ( rural delivery ) number, or suburb.

Rural areas that used to be able to provide employment for all young adults willing to work in challenging conditions, increasingly provide fewer opportunities for young adults.

Rural constituencies therefore became geographically larger through the 20th century and generally encompassed one or more counties each, and the word " riding " was then used to refer to any electoral division.

The Village of Grand Cane, like so many small towns left behind by progress, simply went to sleep until 1993, when the Village used funds from a Rural Development Grant from the State of Louisiana to purchase the Hicks & Richardson Building.

) Other subdivision names such as " East Bank " and " Rural Acres " were used as place names for the area at the time.

* WODX Broadcast Tower – A historic broadcast tower that was used for the Rural Radio Network in the 1950s.

The European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund ( EAGGF ) of the EU, which used to fund the CAP has been replaced in 2007 with the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund ( EAGF ) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development ( EAFRD ).

Rural burhs were smaller and usually consisted of a wooden hall with a wall enclosing various domestic buildings along with an entrance tower called a burh-geat, which was apparently used for ceremonial purposes.

This was still used in 2012, in, for example, the Rural Municipality of Montcalm

Rural distribution may be a single phase at a medium voltage ; in some areas single wire earth return distribution is used when customers are very far apart.

Further girl-chasing roles came to the Wolf in Wild and Wolfy, Swing Shift Cinderella and Little Rural Riding Hood ; simultaneously, the Wolf was used as foe against Avery's Droopy, a role he would keep into the 1950s.

The station wagon was called the Sierra Rural —" Rural " being used for station wagons in Argentina in the same way " Turnier " is used in Germany.

Rural churches historically used a dawal, made from stone slabs or pieces of wood, to call the faithful to prayer.

It used to be part of Horncastle Rural District in the Parts of Lindsey, but is now in the district council of East Lindsey, based in Manby, east of Louth.

Rural real estate values may plummet if ranch land previously used for the production of animal products is abandoned or sold for a loss.

In the United States, they may be used to demonstrate copying, but are not always sufficient to prove legal infringement if the material was not eligible for copyright ( see Feist v. Rural, Fred Worth lawsuit or Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co., 796 F. Supp.

The Museum of Rural Life used to be in Llanvapley until the 1980s when it moved to Usk.

The word gazebo was used by British architects John and William Halfpenny in their book Rural Architecture in the Chinese Taste ( 1750 ).

* Rural Delivery, used in rural areas for home deliveries.

* Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation ( RECC )- Mainly used in Kentucky

Rural constituencies therefore became geographically larger through the 20th century and generally encompassed one or more counties each, and the word " riding " was then used to refer to any electoral division.

The adjacent facility ( M3-Midland 3 ) was a small edit studio and had a SADiE and was primarily used for editing The Archers, Radio 2 specialist music shows, and Radio 4 ’ s Midlands-based Features and Rural Affairs output.

The department apparently intends to make the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax authorities.

His own ideas, especially those expressed in his masterworks, French Rural History ( Les caractères originaux de l ' histoire rurale française, 1931 ) and Feudal Society, were incorporated by the second-generation Annalistes, led by Fernand Braudel.

Though the show had respectable ratings ( it sat at # 16 for the 1970-71 season ), it was dropped in July 1971 by CBS as part of the so-called " Rural Purge " ( along with fellow country-themed shows The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry R. F. D.

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, is an internationally important botanical research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of for the year ended, as well as a visitor attraction receiving almost visits in that year.

* Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow, by Mark Schultz.

Rural population density by gmina ( at 2007-01-01 )

Rural Radiotelephone Service ( RRTS ) provides basic, analog communications service between locations deemed so remote that traditional wireline service or service by other means is not feasible.

Rural culture and commerce became influenced by urban trends.

Slightly over half the members of each national park authority are appointees from the principal local authorities covered by the park ; the remainder are appointed by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, some to represent local parish councils, others selected to represent the " national interest ".

Additional websites that promote and publicize agritourism in the United States include Rural Bounty, founded by agritourism consultant Jane Eckert, Sleep in the Hay, a nationwide directory of farm stays, and Farm Stay USA, a blog that profiles farm stays and tracks agritourism news.

* Rural local self-government challenges and development prospects by Rukhman Adukov

The Welsh Minister for Rural Affairs, Elin Jones, kicked off Plaid's annual conference by pledging to uphold the goal of making Wales a European Union member state.

In October 2008, " An updated lifecycle assessment study for disposable and reusable nappies " by the UK Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs stated that reusable diapers can cause significantly less ( up to 40 per cent ) or significantly more damage to the environment than disposable ones, depending mostly on how parents wash and dry them.

Rural migrants are attracted by the possibilities that cities can offer, but often settle in shanty towns and experience extreme poverty.

The ICDL effort in Mongolia is part of a larger project funded by the World Bank, and administered by the Mongolian Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, called the Rural Education And Development Project ( READ ).

Rural industrialization, officially a priority of the campaign, saw " its development … aborted by the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward.

Under the terms of this Act, a land occupier can be required by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to prevent the spread of the plant.

Methods like Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Rural Appraisal have been adopted to help scientists understand the problems faced by farmers and even give farmers a role in the development process.

More recently, Hale County has become the home of the nationally-recognized Auburn University Rural Studio, an architectural outreach program founded by architect and artist Samuel Mockbee and D. K. Ruth.

Rural Texas in the early 20th Century was often connected by unpaved routes, often of caliche or other rock and dirt paths.

The town was formed in 1934 as an urban district of Middlesex by the Middlesex Review Order 1934, as a merger of the former area of Harrow on the Hill Urban District, Hendon Rural District and Wealdstone Urban District.