Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-13
SHERbURNE & DALEY, s & +: ?Ef;: E:
SOME POSTAL DON'TS.
Errors Commonly Committed by
People When Mailing Letters.
What They Should Avoid if They Wish
Letters to Go.

III is astonishing how questions pou"
| in regarding mail matter and its treat
ment,' said postal official, "and il
/ shows on the part Of the general pub
| lie q Woeful lack of information With
| which it ought to be familiar. | have
! from time to time jotted down some
! postal 'don'ts' which will be found of
! value.
| Don't mail your letter without plac
/ ing at least one tWo-cent postage
! stamp thereon. OF course. you will say
that You always DO this but there were
10, coo patrons Of the mails last year
| who did not.
| Don't fail to write the name and ad-
dress of the person for whom your let
| ter OF 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 super
scription were received last year at the
! Dead Letter Office in Washington.
Don't misdirect your own mail, even
| if half a million people annually write
| the wrong addresses upon the pieces
| they drop in the boxes.
| Don't send loose coin in envelopes
If It is not stolen it often works out OF
| the corners. Don't send bills either If
| the postal thief who steals your money
| is caught he will so to prison. and YOU
will be the cause of it. Use the money
order or the registry system when You
wish to transmit money or valuable
| articles through the mails.
| Don't, if you have come from a
| ion a 10 al, h.
address of your correspondent in the
old country on the envelope. A quar-
ter of a million of these incorrectly ad-
dressed foreign letters are annually re-
turned TO the United States to be re-
turned to their senders. If their names
| and addresses can be obtained.
Don't fail to place your name and
address in yoIm letter or on the EN-
velope if you wish your mssive re-
turned to you in case of nOn-delivery
Some people send money. and say:
From mother or From papa We all
had mothers or fathers. No clue is af-
for,ed to either the sender or the ad-
dressee in case Of non-delivery.
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
| ALL and it causes confusion.
! Don't think you can beat the game
when you receive polite letter from a
stranger in a city telling you how to
get rich quickly for nothing. You will
| be out of pocket and sadly fooled, ii
you entertain this popular belief.
| 90; f,tII -
your foreign mail, both letters and
| packages. even though the former will
80 forward to destination without any
prepayment 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
| that, while a letter will go forward if it
has a single rate of postage paid there
on. two cents, the balance due to be
| collected Of the addressee, newspapers
and packages will not. They go 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 seal
! the flap Of your envelope, and if you
! fail to do this don't afterward COM
plain to the department that some
| body opened my letter.. Thousands of
people do this every year
Don't forget that postal thieves do
not get all of the money-letters which
are not delivered. Some find their way
| to the Dead Letter Office. about So COO
! annually, containing on an average of
about $4,000. Your money is returned
| to you if YOU can be located. otherwise
your dollars help swell the postal fund
| in tie treasury"