SPECIAL NOTICE by Editor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 18, 1861

SPECIAL NOTICE.

By Editor

CORRESPONDENTS will please give their names, Post Office, and State, plainly written. This is especially necessary when writing on business. As some do not see the necessity of this, we will explain for their benefit.

The Post Office addresses of subscribers are arranged in alphabetical order on the list books. On the margin of the books opposite the name we keep every subscriber's account. When a subscriber sends a remittance, we have to turn to his name on the books.

But suppose he does not give us in his letter, in which he sends the remittance, his P. O. address. What then? If we are not personally acquainted with this subscriber, and do not by any means know his address, we have to take our books and search it up, from Maine to Minnesota, requiring from one to three hours' time. Weeks of precious time are spent in this Office in such unpleasant searches in consequence of the egregious blunders of certain correspondents.

We say again, Give your Post Office and State in every letter you address to this Office. If the name of your Post Office is not the name of your town, be sure and not mistake here, in giving your town instead of your Post Office. To show the necessity of the above explanations, we give the following from a correspondent who neglected to give his P. O. address:

"You ask where is my paper sent. This seems strange to me as you have sent it to me for two years, and on the wrapper of the paper in which you inquire you directed it to me all right. You may direct the rest in the same way."