The Forrest City times., 1890-11-29
Int-reating Information.
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK l

A large proportion were those upon which the required amount of postage to entitle them to transmission through the mails had not been prepaid. in- sufficient payment being due to i'm proper inclosiig, whereby higher rate of postage was required.
 Twenty thousand contained money amounting in all to SIS .642.
 Four thousand had inclosures of postal notes in small sums under 8, aggregating 8 300.
 Twenty-seven thousand were found to contain drafts, checks. notes, com mercial paper etc, etc. in the sum of Sl All ,s7l, while forty eight thousand contained paid and cancelled obliga- tions, receipts evidencing payments of money, deeds, mortgages, general mis- cellancous, etc. etc.
 Forty-two thousand contained photo graphs, one thousand contained are ticles forbidden to be transmitted through the mails. and eleven thon- sand upon being opened were found to contain lottery tickets, which. under the terms o. the law, are declared un- mailahle.
 One hundred and sfxty-two thousand contained postage stamps, and were ihciosGres to secure return answers to the correspondence which they accom- panied. or were the remittances in pay men,s of small balances, or accompany ing orders for small purchases ol mer- ehandise, subscriptions. etc.
 Five hundred and thirty-one thou- s.sish were letters and forty one thou. ssud parcels of printed matter. sam ,F.. IL. ,..l. II la foreign countries to postoiiices within the United States, and failing ot delivery were sent ta the dead letter office, and then returned to the postal administrations of their respective counties of origin, unopened.
 Two hundred and i've thousand were letters and fnrty.seven thousand were parcels, books. samples of mer- chandise. etc, which had been mailed within the United States addressed to foreign countries. and having failed of delivery at their destination were sent lo the dead letter office by foreign postal administrations.
 Over tive million of the letters re- ceiycd at tue dead letter office con tained no inclosure of ohyiuais value. although dntlhtlrss many of them
 
 to both sender aud addresSce as thou stnds of other letters containing money, cheeks, stamps, etc. and yet of this immense number of letters over three million bore within either no definite or sufficient address of the wri,er--in mast cases no address whatever--or there was no signature whereby the writer might be identified or determined. without which the dead letter office could not make re- turn.
 Misdirection. incorrect, illegible, and deficient address are given as lead- ing causes which occasion the failure of mail matter to reach it's proper desti- nation. and affect alike that which is SD 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 ar occupation, or some designated place of delivery of the person addressed; inability to find transient people and their neglect to give forwarding orders for their mail; the neglect of permanent or tenn porary residents to notify the carriers ar postoilice of change of place for the delivery of their mail matter upon moving from one part of the city to another, together with the failure of newcomers to furnish the postoffice with their names and places of ad- dress. IL is to these causes, with others of more or less consequence, that the non-delivery of mail matter is, in the main, attributable. and they are conditions over which the postal service has no control, and may alone be remedied hy the people themselves.
 The following suggestions, II ob- served, will aid the dispatch and de- livery of matter sent through the mails, or its return directly Ia the sender in the event of non-dclivery, and thus prevent the annoyance, delay and embarrassment caused by sending matter to the dead letter office.
 Mail matter should be plainly and correctly addressed, the name If the postuilice to which it is to be sent should be clearly and distinctly stated, and to avoid confusion from tn. similarity of abbreviations. as fre- quentIy used the name of the state should also be given in full. In the case of matter addressed to small offices, or where there are offices of like names in different states, the name of the county should be added.
 As the immense quantity of matter sent through the mails is necessarily required to he handled rapidly by the railway mail clerks and at the post offices in the cities, too much care can. not be exercised in addressing mail matter clearly, plainly and correctly.
 Where matter Is addressed to cities or free delivery offices the street and house number, or postoflice box num- Der of the person addressed, are i'm portsnt. and should always be given when it Is possible to do So.
 Where this cannot be done the busis ness or employment of the person ad- dressed. if stated, will often secure