Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1884 — Misdirected Mail Matter. [ARTICLE]

Misdirected Mail Matter.

People in general have but a faint conception of the enormous amount of misdirected mail matter which passes through the mails annually. In the Boston office last year there were 49,000 letters wrongly addressed, and in all these cases the proper addresses were ascertained and the letters forwarded to their destination, and yet people wonder why their letters are delayed, although it is owing to their own' carelessness. Of course, the Postoffice officials are not responsible, but many people fail to see where the trouble lies. In further evidence of the want of care on the part o( the public, it is stated that the number of letters sent to the Dead Letter Office during last y ear was nearly 4,500,6; .0, qr an average of 14,50 J per day. These letters contained no less than SIOO,OOO in cash, arid checks to the amount of $1,500,000. —Boston Herald.