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

Four thousand had Enclosures of
postal notes In small sums under
S5. aggregating $1,000.
Twenty.s even thousand were
found to contain drafts, checks,
notes, commercial paper, ETC., etc.,
in the sum of $1,471,S71, while
forty eight thousand contained paid
and Cancelled obligations, recep's
evldencing payments of money,
deed, mortgages, general miscel'
laneous papers, etc, etc.
Forty.two thousand contained !
photographs, one thousand con.
tanned articles forbidden to be
transmitted through the mails; and
eleven thousand upon being opened
were found to contain lottery tick
cts, which, under the terms of the
law, are declared unmallable.
One hundred and sixty.two
thousand contained postage stamps,
and were Enclosures to secure re-
turn answers to the correspondence
which they accompanied, or we're
the remittances in payments OF
small balanceS,or accompanying or
ders for small purchases of mer'
chandise, subscriptions, etc.
Five hundred and thirty One
thousand were letters, and forty
one thousand parcels of printed
matter, samples, ETC., which had
been mailed in foreign countries to
post offices within the Unit d
States aud failing of delivery were
sent to the Dead Letter Office, and
thence returned to the postal all
mlnistrations of their respective
countries of origin, unopened.
Two hundred aud five thousand
were letters, and tOrtyseven thous-
and were parcels, books, samples of
merchandise, etc., which had been
mailed within the United States
addressed to foreign countries, and
having failed of delivery at their
destination, were sent to the Dead
Letter Office by foreign postal adj
ministratlons.
Over five million OF the Letters
received at the Dead Letter Office
contained no iDcIOsure of obvious
value, although doubtless many OF
them were quite as valuable and
important to both sender ard adj
dressee as thousands of other
letters containing money, checks
stamps, ETC., and set of this im-
mense number of letters over three
million bore within either no def
mite or sufficient address Of the
writer-in most cases no address
whatever-Or there was no sigma
ture whereby the writer might be
identified or determined, without
which the Dead Letter Office could
not make return.
MiSdirection, incorrect, illegible,
aud deficient address are given as
leading causes which occasion the
failure of mail matter to reach Its
proper destination, and affect alike
that which is so addressed to either
city, town, or village.
In addition to these, in the case
of matter mailed to cities or free
delivery Offices, are the failure to
give street or number, business or
occupation, or some designated
place of delivery Of the person adj
dressed; inability to find transient
people, and their neglect to give
forwarding orders for their mail
; the neglect of permanent or tempo
rary residents to notify the carriers
or post Office of change of place
for the delivery of their mail mat
ter upon moving from one part ol
! he city to another, together Will
, the failure of newcomers to fur
! nish the post Office with thell
names and places of address. Il
q is to these causes, with Others o
more or less consequence, that th'
non delivery of mail matter Is, II
!. the main, attributable, and the.
Z are conditions over which the pos
|. tai service has no control, and ma,
q alone be remedied by the peopl
% themselves.
d The following suggestions, ii OF
served, will aid the dispatch an
rs delivery of matter sent through tn
Il. mails, or its return directly to tn
to sender In the event of non n-dellVerl
~ and thus prevent the annoyance
" delay, and embarrassment cause
IF. by sending matter to the Dead LIE
sc Ter Office.
ed Mail matter should be PLAIN
ul and correctly addressed, the nan
or of the post Office to which 1t IS
ne be sent should be clearly and dl
r. tinctIy stated, and to avoid co
al fusion from the similarity OF a
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