Show LOST troubles with which rost offices have to contend yew awk sun A woman went to colonel percy jones superintendent ot the missing betler bureau of lie recently and let him know that a letter eho had mailed some weeks ago bail cone astray she asked him to look it up for her i am positive I 1 put it in the letter box and that it lus not been received by the person to horn it was addressed it was a letter acome importance and all this delay is a great annoyance tina w as in answer to questions by colonel jones from the cormal inquiring blank ot the department col jones handed lie blank filled up to sir toole his assistant nearly everybody puts the blame lor missing letters upon the folks sir tool said to a reporter of the sun but the fact is that ill nearly 50 per cent of the cases investigated show 8 that it is the fault of the genders in the most important letters they are not at a 1 careful in this pile yon wil find names of cities omitted in many cases christian names are left oil and in numerous instances the of the person to whom it is to be is not there how will you find aliis letter 9 he ft aa akad we never say for certain eliat we will find a letter all we caa de is to a we find it wa send it to abe person to whom it ib aitho person who calls upon us te insure the search only a elfort time ago a was returned to a roan in fulton market that he had deot to another roan in south carolina eleven years aco search was made for it hee and it was not found it was finally re to the dead letter olace at washington it was by accident that it turned up there A clerk was overhauling a bundle of documents when he came acroca the check he had often reen the bank making inquiry about this same check it was forwarded to this city and turned over to the fulton market roan so you can see it is possible for us to return a letter any time inside of a century here is a letter that was rifled by a dishonest clerk it aa used as evidence and is now far warded to alie person to whom it was addressed after a three months delay here is a letter that has traveled twice across the ocean it bs a bank ot angland note inside there is no telling when we will find its owner we follow a letter up as it goe out 01 comes into abe tracing it from one hand to the other with a letter or one with a money order the work is easy with an ordinary letter it is a difficult task and hag to be traced alons with the other mail we send at a venture to all the past offices with jamea the same or similar to that upon the letter should we not find it then ne fend our ic quires to the dead atter office at our bearch turns up one half of the lette g incase a money letter a business ard in one corner apking that tt be returned it not delivered is missing mib sing you can bet that it has been billed or has dropped into the out ot the flay place only to bo found in a long time perhaps if many complaints are made against a postoffice post office it is sure to bring the postoffice post office where the letters are missed under suspicion they may go on letters for a time but they are generally caught boon the letters we are asked to look after generally are those of value |