Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — TO BETTER THE MAIL SERVICE. [ARTICLE]

TO BETTER THE MAIL SERVICE.

Directory of Alt the United States Schools Being Compiled. In the foreign mail division of the dead letter office there is now being compiled a directory of all the schools, big and little, in the United States. The preparation of this directory is not as remarkable as the need lor it. Nearly every day from 10,000 to 15.000 foreign letters reach this division addressed simply to schools or colleges in America with no town, county or State named in the address. The high state of perfection to which “blind reading” has attained in the dead letter office is evident when it is known that 75 per cent, of those letters are speedily dispatched to their destination. The others go back unopened to the general postoffices of the country whose stamp they bear.