Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — A Point About Addressing Letters. [ARTICLE]

A Point About Addressing Letters.

“Don’t address your envelopes “city,” said the giver of advice. “If you are in New-York City write ‘New-York City.’ If you are in Brooklyn write ‘Brooklyn,’ and the postoffice people will be grateful, and your letters will be more likely to get to the right place. I’ll tell you howj got broken of the habit. 1 gave an office boy half a dozen letters to mail on his way home. The Ittle idiot lived in Brooklyn, and waited until he got across the Bridge before he mailed them. They were all addressed ‘city,’ and you can easily see what happened. The Tribune had an illustration several weeks ago of the danger of using the address “city.” In Oakland, Cal., there is another “Tribune.” Some one in Oakland, sending to that paper, used the address simply, “The Tribune, city.” That letter took the first mail for New-York City; and - came plumb into Tiie Tribune office here'. The “city” was written obscurely, and looked as much like “N. Y.” as anything else. If “Oakland” had been written on the envelope the chances are that the letter, which fortunately was only a circular, by-the-way, would never have gone astray.—[New Y’ork Tribune.