More than half a million dead letters were returned to senders in New Zealand by the dead letter office in 1939. according to the annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department. Of the total of 518,852 dead letters, 19,084 were registered. Other articles returned to senders in New Zealand totalled 378,294. Another 52,052 letters were returned to other administrations. Letters destroyed, the senders being unknown and the contents of no value, totalled 31,635. Letters intercepted because they were addressed to persons and firms on the prohibited list numbered 103.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1940, Page 8
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