Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-09-26

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Office box number of the person ad'
dressed are important, and should
always be given when it is possible
to do so.
Where this cannot be done, the
business or employment of the
person addressed, If stated, will
often secure delivery.
The free-delivery offices, being in
the cities and larger towns the
trade centers of the country-have
a large, varying, transient popula-
ton, which cannot be known to
the post t-office officials in the sane
degree as iu the smaller places, aad
delivery is, therefore, made the
more difficult; and where recourse
must be had to the cry directories
they are often found imperfect and
incomplete, so that the means of
ascertaining the location of the ad-
dressee frequently is found want
inc, anil delivery tails because the
person is not known or cannot be
founG.
A sun II portion only of the mail
received at the tree delivery offices
is called tor at the general delivery
of the post Office, the public expect
Ing delivery by the letter carriers !;
and hence the importance of giving
street and number, or some other
designation whereby the person
addressed may b5 found.
Matter mailed to cities and free
delivery offices, addressed without
street and number, or some other
designation enabling delivery, goes
into the general delivery, subject
to lee called for; and of such mat
ter, the statistics of the post Offices
of some of the larger cities show
that not more than % per cent. is
called for.
Letters addressed to persons
temporarily sOjournlng in a city
where the letter carrier system is
IN operation should be marked
"Translentr or "General Delivery"
it not addressed to a street and
number, or some other designated
place of delivery.
The name and address OF the
sender, either printed or written,
should be placed upon the upper
lett hand corner of the envelope or
wrapper ofall matter mailed.
This will secure its immediate
return to the sender from the mail
ing Office tor correction ifimproper'
Iy addressed, insufficiently paid, or
otherwise detective; thus afOrdlng
opportunity to comply with the
I postal regulations and require
ments, and place the matter in
proper condition to entitle it to all
the privileges OF the mails, and is
especially useful IN the case OF
packages and other matter mailable
at less than letter rate OF postage,
which is restricted TO certain con-
citions and requirements as to
weight. size, manner of inclosure
etc.
Letters aud all other matter
mailed, so marked with the name
and address of the sender, that
should fail to he called for or de-
livcred to the person addressed,
and upon which full letter rates ol
, postage has been paid are not sent
10 the Dead Letter Office, but are
returnable to the sender directly
: without additional charge, and
: with the reason of delivery in
3 dorsed thereon.
The above suggestions in respec
. to the return of unclaimed and IN
) delivered mall matter directly t
e the sender from the post office al
:. drcs sed, refers only to letters an'
{ OH mail matter upon which tul
i letter postage has been paid.
:. Packages and all matter malice
r at less than letter rates of postage
t should, in addition to the nam
# and address of the sender upo
@ the envelope or wrapper, bear /
u connection Herewith a request 10
Y its return in The event of monde
3 livery, in which case it is also IT
y turnable directly to the sende
10 from the post office addressed
charged with return postage at tn
b. rate required for the class OF ma
d ter to which 1t belongs.
le The distinction, under the post'
le regulations, as regards the retur
8, of unclaimed and undelivered ma
e, ter is, that letters and other matt'
ed prepaid at toll letter rates are r
It. turnabIe free, whereas matter ma
able at less than letter postal