Show Zeke Canadians and Mail Are Confused Lad Sends Mile Letter Starting Merry Postal Apparently the tracing of Ed Zeke Stephens' Stephens address which was about 2200 miles from their headquarters and the return of ofa n a truant letter to him ns as n a cost of only eleven cleven thousandths ten-thousandths of Dt ofa a cent per mile is just a part of the tho days day's work for employees of f fth th the Chateau Frontenac a large Quebec hotel and and the Canadian postal authorities While on a trip which took him to Quebec Canada Ed Stephens business manager of the 1938 adv ad mailed a letter to toa a friend in Montgomery Alabama from the hotel where he was registered registered registered reg reg- reg- reg only as ns asEd Ed Stephens Salt SnIt Lake City Utah U. U S S. S The trice trice- referred document arrived in Alabama Alabama Alabama Ala Ala- bama on August 16 36 36 wh where ro rothe the postoffice clerks were unable to find the addressee because the street address was not given Since it was foreign mail the buck was passed to the dead- dead letter office offic at Washington D. D C. C where it was sent back to the Canadian hotel The clerks began tracing Mr Stephens' Stephens Salt Lake City address for he had checked out long before They great success and missed the addreSs address address ad ad- dress by only one number Thus the much traveled l correspondence arrived at the University postoffice post of fice Nov 13 addressed to Union building the Humbugs Humbug's headquarters good evidence of how tragic a mistake of one digit can cnn be Estimating that the letter ett r averaged averaged averaged av av- av- av twelve traveling hours homs a aday aday I day it sped along its way a at a arate arate I Irate rate of 46 m. m p p. p h h. h for 2 32 hours It went approximately 5 miles for six cents and ev everyone everyone everyone ev- ev called the postmaster general general general gen gen- eral a robber when the postage rate was raised from to c It passed through two nations and about twenty-three twenty states crossing crossing crossing cross cross- ing two of the worlds world's largest rivers and to think that I cant can't work vork Chem problems I II I |