. Review of reviews and world's work. at the general office amost interesting and varied task is the undirected, misdirected, insufficientlystamped, unclaimetl, andunmailable pieces of mailpass through this department. Last year therewere received more tlian 72,000 inquiries for miss-ing mail. Fifty-five per cent, of these were recov-ered or accounted for. Nearly 3,000,000 piecesweresent to the Dead Letter Office at than a million and a quarter of letters mis-directed by the senders were forwarded, the cor-Iect addresses having been supplied by the alert,experi
. Review of reviews and world's work. at the general office amost interesting and varied task is the undirected, misdirected, insufficientlystamped, unclaimetl, andunmailable pieces of mailpass through this department. Last year therewere received more tlian 72,000 inquiries for miss-ing mail. Fifty-five per cent, of these were recov-ered or accounted for. Nearly 3,000,000 piecesweresent to the Dead Letter Office at than a million and a quarter of letters mis-directed by the senders were forwarded, the cor-Iect addresses having been supplied by the alert,experienced clerks in this department. Oftenconsiderable ingenuity, as well as linguistic andgeographical knowledge, is required to guesswhat the sender meant to write. Another in-teresting phase of this departments work is thelocating of owners or consignees of money foundloose in the mails. Last year more than 6,500different sums were found in amounts rangingfrom a cent to two thousand dollars. 584 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF BRINGING NEW YORKS FOREIGN MAIL UP THE BAY. (The Postmaster-Oeneral, the boat of the New York Post-Office.) NEW YORK S FUNCTION IN THE POSTAL SCHEME. New York is tlie main gateway to tlie UnitedStates, and the New York Post-Office is the na-tional mail funnel. Tlie liulk of the Canadianforeign mail—incoming and outgoing—passesthrough New York and is handled—in bags—by the New York Post-Office. When Europeanswrite to Australasian points, almost all their let-ters pass, in bulk, thiough New York and aredispatched, via our transcontinental railroads,through San Francisco, to their of the European mail for the Far East,for Mexico, and lor South America finds thatthe American metropolis marks one stage of itsjourney. Tn order to save for the European mail thetime lost by tlie incoming transatlantic liners incoming up New York Bay and worrying throughthe formalities of docking and passing customsofficials, every steamer carryin
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