The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-01
SOME POSTAL poN,Ts.
Errors Commonly Committed by Peo-
pie in Mailing Letters.


1T is astonishing how questions pour
in regarding mail matter and its treat
ment' said a postal official and il
shows on the part of the general pub
lie q woful lack of information with
which IL ought 10 be familiar. | have
from time 10 time jotted down some
postal 'don'ts which Will be found of
value.
Don't mail your letter without plac-
Ing at least one 2-Cent postage stamp
thereon. OF course. you will say that
Won always do this, but there were
l5e.o00 patrons of the mails last year
who did not
Don't fail to write the name and adj
dress of the person for whom your let
tor or package is intended plainly on
The envelope or face of the package.
You may find comfort in the knowledge
that more than 100000 pieces of mail
matter without a line OF sUperscription
were received last year at the dead let
ter Office, in Washington.
Don misdirect your own mail, even
/ &c half a million people annually write
I the wrong addresses upon the pieces
/ they drop i'm the boxes
Don't send loose coin in envelopes.
I II it is not stolen il often works out Of
/ the corners. Don't send bills. either.
/ II the postal thief who steals your
money is caught he will go TO prison,
and you win be the cause Of it. Use
l'the money order or the registry system
4 when you wish to transmit money or
valuable articles through the mails.
Don't If you have come from for
/ eign land. fail to place the correct ad-
/ dress OF your correspondent in the old
/ country on the envelope. a quarter OF
a million of these incorrectly addressed
/ foreign letters are annually returned TO
/ the United States TO be returned to
their senders. if their names and adj
( dresses can be obtained.
Don't fail 10 place your name and
+ address in your letter or on the envel-
/ ope If you wish your missive returned
TO you i'm case of nOndelivery. Some
people send money, and say: From
. mother, on from papa We all had
mothers and fathers. No clue is al
forded to either the sender or the ad-
dressee in case of nOndelivery.
Don't omit your name. your post
office or your state when. writing TO de-
partment stores in cities for goods
Many people do omit one. or more Of
these essential particulars. sometimes
crH. and il causes confusion.
Don't think YOU can beat the game
when YOU receive 2 polite letter from
T. stranger in a city telling you how to
get rich quickly Tor nothing. You will
be out Of pocket and sadly fooled; II
you entertain this popular belief.
Don't fail 10 prepay full rate upon
your foreign mail. both letters and
packages. even though the former viii
go forward to destination without any
urepayment of postage at all, and the
latter If partially prepaid. Double
postage is collected abroad for the
amount due.
Don't forget with domestic mail
cnat. while letter win so forward if
St has a single rate Of postage paid
thereon. 2 cents the balance due to be
collected of the ADDRESSED. newspapers
and packages viii not. They so. to the
dead letter Office. People confuse these
Instances of foreign and domestic
mail. and loss results
Don't be so careless as not to sea
the flap OF your envelope, and II vol
fail to do this don't afterward com
plain TO the department. that some
body opened my letter Thousands o
people do this every year.
BORT forget that postal thieves dl
not get all Of the money letters which
are not delivered. Some find their way
10 the dead letter Office, about 5000
annually. containing on an average o.
about s5O.G0e Your money is returned
TO YOU if YOU can be located: otherwise
tvour dollars help swell the postal FUND
I'm the treasury.