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Dead letter office, probably in Washington, D.C.; September 1922. A dead letter office (DLO) is a facility within a postal system where undeliverable mail is processed. [4] Mail is considered to be undeliverable when the address is invalid so it cannot be delivered to the addressee, and there is no return address so it cannot be returned to the ...
A sectional center facility (SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes.
During the 1950s in the United States, more and more mail was not arriving at intended recipients, and as a result of the lack of a return address, said mail ended up in the dead letter office. With this rise in dead mail, the post office pleaded for people to use a return address.
The facility's volume had grown by the mid-1980s to 14 million pieces of mail per day, [13] and the annex was plagued by inadequate space, overcrowding and inadequate work areas. [14] Accordingly, the Postal Service Board of Governors in 1984 approved the construction of a new $151 million general post office in South Los Angeles . [ 11 ]
A Nixie is a name given by the United States Postal Service to a piece of mail which is undeliverable as addressed. It is derived from "nix", English slang for the German nichts ("nothing"), and "-ie", an item or a thing. ("Nix" used in English c. 1780–1790, "Nixie" c. 1880–1885.)
At Studio Salon, Kim Kunkel, middle, wishes letter carrier Dave Costa well in his retirement as he delivers the mail at McHenry Village in Modesto, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023.
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USPS "Slim Jim" recycling bin for unwanted mail. The program uses 23-US-gallon (87 L)-capacity plastic bins, which USPS refers to as "Slim Jims". [8] The bins have lockable lids and have a narrow insertion slot to maintain customer privacy and limit the potential of discarded mail being stolen for the harvesting of personal information. [3] [4]