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Show DO YOU KNOW THAT 21,000,000 letter went to the Dead Letter Office last year? THAT 803,000 parcels did likewise? like-wise? THAT 100,000 letters go into the mail yearly in perfectly blank envelopes? envel-opes? THAT $55,000 in cash is removed annually from misdirected mail? THAT $12,000 in postage stamps -is found in similar fashion? THAT $3,000,000 in checks, drafts, and money orders never reach intended intend-ed .owners? THAT Uncle Sam collects 9i,uuu a year in postage for the return of mail sent to the Dead Letter Office. THAT it costs Uncle Sam $1,740,-000 $1,740,-000 yearly to look up addresses on misdirected mail? THAT 200,000,000 letters are given giv-en this service yearly, and THAT it costs in one city alone $500 daily? And Do You Know That this vast sum could be saved and the Dead Letter Office abolished if each piece of mail carried a return address, and if each parcel were wrapped wrap-ped in stout paper and tied with strong cord? Moral: Every man knows his own address if not that of his correspondent. correspon-dent. Put it in the Upper Left-hand Corner! |