The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-12-22
DEAD E.E.I'E'a,k.S.

DEAD l.AIiAkS.
From t,.c Report Of tie postmartcv General.
The rumber of dead letters of every
description received aud examined du
ring the Year was 3, sos, So, bciug an in
crease Of 9JS 400 over the preceding
year, attributable mainly to the return Of
large numbers CT army and navy letters,
which it was found impracticab!e to de-
liver.
During the year there were registered
and remailed to the respective owners,
as containing money, 25, I52 letters, con
tanning an aggregate of which number
20 UJ3, containing SlUl 60 - were dc
livcrcd; t, ,-ii2 letters, containg so, 49,.
10, were returned to the Department, be
ing addressed chiefly to soldiers, sailors,
and persons TRANSIENT y at places of mail
ing or address
The number of dead letters containing
papers of value, other than money, as
deeds, bills of exchange, drafts, checks,
etc, received, registered and returned for
delivery to the owners, was t., 1856, and
the nominal value of the Enclosures there
in was 81, ,6I5, ,C94.74, being an increase
| over the previous year of 4, l0l, Or about
! nIty pvI teut., muiic Tue iucira-c III the
value Of the Enclosures was but s. ,ll1,-
I94. The number of these letters deliy-
cred was | ,311S, or ninety per cent.
During the year 1880 letters and
packages were received containing photo,
graphs, daguorreotypes, and articles eff
jewe'ry. OF this number; 29,999 were
sent out for delivery, 2G,G of which
contained photographs and daguerreo-
types, 1,il0 articles Of jcwelry, and
LOSE other miscellaneous articles. OF
the whole number sent out, is, 2l3 were
delivered to either the sendcrs or parties
addressed. the postage on which amount,
cd to 81 ,9i5 "a
10 Mag last large number of packages
containing miscellaneous articles which
had been accumulating for several years,
were classified and sold at public auction,
the proceeds amounting to Sl,ll3.21.
The number Of valuable dead letters
registered and sent out for delivery was
H93,l7S being 23 81 more than the pre-
cediDg year, aud there were returned to
the Allutant Generals, Quartermaster' s
Generals, and other public Offices, IL,
lI6 letters and packages containing mus
Ter rolls, descriptive lists, and soldier
discharge papers; IS, C9l containing post
age stamps and money in less sums than
che dollar, or articles of less than one
, dollar in value, were returned to the send
. The number of letters which it wa.
found impossible to forward from th'
a offices where deposited, or to deliver It
the parties addressed, because of the pest
{ age being unpaid, or Oh account of being
illegally directed, and which were IN con
sequence seat to the dead letter ofic
, was ll5,S12. OF this pumber, 72,01-
a were "heId for postage" being adlresse'
to foreign countries, to which the prepay
ment Of postage is compulsory, or to thos
:, countries with which the United State
a have no postal arrangemcnt; 3s,06S o
e the number were "misdirected,' or s
- i,legib,y addressed that the destinatio
. could not be ascertaiued. A large mum
; Der Of this last class were without any ad
,, dress whatever, and in many instance
II contained Enclosures of value.
i During the year there were received 9
the Department 5,ll2 applicants fo
\ missing tetters. for all of which examine
!, tions were made and the applicants not
d Gad of the result.
AZ A large number of letters addressed
40 rebel localities, have been returned fro'
various sources to the dead letter otilc'
81 amounting to the aggregate to 81 ~
= of which number IS, ,42l were of dome
# tic, and 5000 of foreign origin. The
of were all ndorsed "mails suspended an
n. returned, the domestic to the writers, al
,e the foreign to the countries il which tht
originated.
he Within the past year, 1886 letters a
an dressed to fictitious persons or tru
ut were sent BY postmasters to the dead le
Va ter Office, and thence returned to write
or scuders The addresses were ASSUME
he evidently for the purpose of condueti'
nd some fraudulent business, and In maj
bo instances these letters were found to GO
% tain remittances.
a Under the provisions Of the act apr
on we'd January Il, 1862, $500 or
no nary dead letters, or those not e'lden