Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-04

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Many mistakes are corrected at the desk
of the assistant postmaster by aid of the
directory of all the streets, avenues, courts,
places, lanes, roads, ETC., i'm the $50 free
delivery towns of the country which was
last year distributed to the larger post of
fees, the use of which i'm perfecting the
addresses of such matter as may be mani
testify intended for delivery elsewhere has
been of great value. Postmastcrs are au-
thorizcd to forward all matter which by
the aid of this directory and other reliable
books of reference they are reasonably
certain can he delivered at another office,
though no guessing at destination is allow
ed. For instance a letter may he received
here addressed Arthur O. Taft, 307 Pearl
street, Brattleboro. The highest number
on the local Pearl street is II. The direc-
tory shows Pearl streets i'm st. Johnsbury,
st. Adams, Rutland, Montpelier and Bur
lington, but only in the latter place are
the numbers higher than 104, the Burling-
ton Pearl street having rs high rs 40, so
to that place it is sent. Letters addressed
to 147 North Union street, 204 Willard
street, and Colchester avenue, Brattlc-
boro, proved to be deliverable at Burling-
ton. A paper addressed only 81 South
local 81, found its owner in Rutland, that
being the only other free delivery town in
this state having South Main street with
that number. 4 letter was recently mailed
here to II Kibbe avenue, Springfield. Now
there are Springfelds i'm 80 states, and
four have numbered streets, but the direc-
tory showed that the only Kibbe avenue in
the country was in Springfield, Mass. A
letter from Sweden addressed 20 Brook
Road, North America, promptly reached
its rightful owner in this place, even
though there are two Brook Roads in the
United States; but the Pennsylvania one
is not numbered. so Brattleboro was tried
first.
This street directory and other reference
books and the telephone are used many
times per day to correct or complete wrong
addresses. In tracing claimed losses of
letters and parcels the result often proves
carelessnesS on the part of sender \
package of photographs from st. Johns
bury, intended for II Washington street,
Brattleboro, was finally found To have
been directed to Boston instead. An inn
portant letter containing valuable papers
which the sender was positive he directed
to Hartford. Conn, was found in Burling-
ton, Vt. Two Main street merchants re
Gently made complaint of loss of parcels
sent customers in Mortified, Mass. They
were found i'm Mortified, VT, to which
place both were plainly addressed
4 letter claimed to have been sent to $50
Main street, Springfield, Mass, was two
weeks later found to have been addressed
to same street and number in Hartford,
Conn.
Several days after the post-Otiice had
been asked to hunt up letter sent TO Al
Maple street, Springfield, Mass, the letter
was received there from Worcester, Mass,
where it had been mistakenly addressed.
A letter said to have been sent to Plain
field, Conn, was reported not received, and
tracers being sent to the offices of that
name in Vermont, New Hampshire and
Massachusetts, found it at the latter place,
where it was plainly addressed.
\ letter enclosing a stock certificate sent
by High street lady to her son i'll Boston
was reported by him as not received, and
the usual enquiries being instituted by both
offices, was found two days after by the adj
dressee in his desk drawer, unopened, hav-
ing been duly received OH the day OF mail
ing.
\ New y ork lady who spends her sum
mprs in Brattleboio, on Jan. 10 enclosed a
check to local plumber in payment OF IA
bill, the plumber not receiving ii until
March /, the lady having addressed the let
ter to his street and number, but in New
York city, and they being unable to deliy-
er sent it TO the dead letter Office, where on
being opened the Brattleboro clue was OBJ
tanned from the addresscc bill head.
\ letter from Greenfield enclosing ~ in
postal notes, addressed to a clerk IN a lo-
cal store and i'm her employers care, was
four days after reported to po,t-ullicc as
not received, and the matter was duly re-
ported To the department inspector Tor in
vestigatiun. just three weeks later, or
nearly month after the letter was mailed,
another cmpoye OF the store found it in a
pocket OF his oVercoat, where hc had
placed it when he took il from the post
Office box.
a Green street woman reported the loss
of package of fancy work sent her on
Jan, II by a friend in neighboring city.
The usual first enquiries failing to trace it,
Feb. IL the case was reported TO the chief
pOst-oiiice inspector, and application made
to the dead letter Office for search. March
) the postmaster at the mailing office wrote
he had found the package in his office
Enough he had JAM % saba careful search
had been made in his office and no trace
could be fOund), the sender having adj
dressed it to Green street, that city, and
the carriers failing to deliver, it had been
put with uncalled for matter until made
return to dead letter office.
Notes.
An important order was recently issued
by the Postmaster General, the effect of
which will be to give money order facilities
to all small offices where the compensation
of postmasters reaches $500 per year.
The average sale per month of both
twO-cent stamps and two-cent envelopes at
the BrattlebOro post-ofiice during 1891 was
4G, ga, an increase of y per cent in four
years. On the one item of government
stamped envelopes bearing letter rates of
postage the increase was over II per cent
in the same period.
The New York postmaster has recently
been informed by the post-ofiice depart
ment that "circulars, etc, the reading mat
ter in which it is reproduced by mechanical
process in such close imitation of typewrt-
ing that it cannot be readily distinguished
therefrOm, may not be sent by mail at
printed matter rates, but must be prepaid
as letters.
In the recent annual statement of the
pOst-Ottice the absence of the usual yearly
report of mail matter delivered and col
lected by carriers has probably been mo-
ticed. The counting of the mail matter