Do you fail to get a reply to your letter? Is the parcel you sent by post unacknowledged? If so, perhaps you may find a reason for it in the following facts from the Ladies' Home Journal:— It is estimated that during the last year 6,000,000,000 pieces of mail matter, including all classes, were posted in the United States. Of this number, 6,312,731 were sent to the dead-letter office, making an average receipt of about 21,000 letters and parcels for each working day. During this period more than 85,000 pieces were despatched either with insufficient postage or none at all, 32,000 bore no address whatever, 34,000 were misdirected, 200,000 were unclaimed at hotels, and something more than the last number were sent to fictitious addresses. And to these figures must be added 2,973,387 letters and circulars without inclosures of obvious value, which could not be returned to the senders, and were destroyed. More than 50,000 letters contained money, amounting to $38,595, while 32,422 included drafts, money orders, etc., to the value of $945,000, to say nothing of 30,000 with photographs.