| Show A WISE PROVISION of the many thousands of dead letters returned to the pst office department lepart ment I 1 none are read or preserved unless they contain enclosures of some sort and consequently many letters are destroyed which contain information of great value to some persons a adare aresser saed or to their families irreparable bof looses ses from this cause sometimes occur to individuals and not an frequently applications are re made for letters apparently of great interest to the person applying hot but which have months or years before been committed to the flam flames es we learn that in the new edition of tile the regulations of the post office department which is about to be published it is provided that in every case where the writer of a letter chooses to protect it from the chance of being opened I 1 at the department and destroyed as a dead letter he can do so by pre paying the postage and wi writing alting legibly 0 on the sealed side the words TO BF PRESERVED in which case e it will be rescued from band the liability of being committed to the flames and its seal will remain enact I 1 I 1 |
