DEAD-LETTER OFFICE FACTS.
There are 1,000,000 dead letters received annually at the dead-letter office. Three hundred thousand without stamps. Fifty thousand partially addressed. Six thousand no address. One and a half millions of money orders and drafts of money value. Forty live thousand packages coitaining property. Forty thousand dollars in momy, mnetenths of which is returned, the balance remaining in the treasury, subje't to application for four years. Fifteen thousand photograph. One-quarter of a million juropean letters are returned unopened. . One-tenth of all letters received contain thousand applics'ons for letters reported lost ; the gre»« proportion found and delivered.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1815, 15 December 1879, Page 2
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98DEAD-LETTER OFFICE FACTS. Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1815, 15 December 1879, Page 2
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