Carelessness | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 1, 1877

Carelessness.

THE Postal Record says that during the last year there were sent to the Dead Letter Office nearly three million letters. Sixty-eight thousand of these letters could not be forwarded owing to the carelessness of the writers in omitting to give the county or State; four hundred thousand failed to be sent because the writers forgot to put on stamps, and over three thousand letters were put in the post-office without any address whatever. In the letters above named was found over $92,000 in cash, with drafts, checks, etc., to the value of $3,000,000. There were over thirty-nine thousand photographs contained in the above letters. Of course nearly all the money and valuables were returned to the owners, but much needless delay, many charges of dishonesty, etc., might have been saved if the writers of the letters could have been a little more careful, and taken the precaution to see that their letters were in mailable condition before depositing them in the post-office. It is more than probable that nine-tenths of all the complaints, losses, and delays which are laid to the Post-office Department, are in reality due to the carelessness of their writers.—Sel.