Show TIIE nciORT of the superintendent of the Dead Letter office just sent in to the I postmastergeneral shows a very large Increase in the amount of correspondence forwarded there from the cities as being undelivered The fact that 70 per cent of the letters were afterwards delivered shows that something other than carleess ness in the direction was at the bottom of tile trouble Much of this sort of mail I goes to the Washington office for want ol r proper attention at the carriers division I of the postoffices in not keeping up with I removals from place to place Anothe I cause is the failure to supply postoflice in each city that has the same name I1S others in different states with the direc lories of those other cities whereby the error of address could often be corrected Of coure tbe great cause of the crowding of the Dead Letter office will continue to bo carelessness in writing the superscription superscrip-tion I |