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A Dead Letter Office was first established in 1784 for dead and missent letters that had reached London. The bye-letter offices dealt with bye-letters and those that did not go to London. No postage was charged for returns, which were made after six months, where an addressee was found.
Dead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in April 1987.The album is essentially a collection of many additional recordings R.E.M. made from before Murmur to Lifes Rich Pageant that were outtakes or released as B-sides to their singles internationally.
1821 - Carlo Meratti, an Italian, living in Alexandria, establishes a post office to send and receive mail to and from foreign countries. [11] 1825 - The US establishes a dead letter office. [12] 1828 - Hellenic postal service established.
Kristin Booth (Shane McInerney-O'Toole) Shane is the DLO's computer guru and wasn't even meant to be a member of the Dead Letter Office. She was actually assigned to another DLO in the postal ...
More than 100 letters that never reached the crew of a French warship have been read for the first time since they were sent 265 years ago. Rare ‘treasure box’ of French letters opened and ...
The song was re-recorded during sessions for the band's 1984 album Reckoning, but was left off the album and later relegated to B-side status, appearing on the 7- and 12-inch versions of the single "Wendell Gee" in 1985, remixed by engineer Steve Fjelstad (as noted on the Dead Letter Office liner notes.)
In January 1993, the European reissue of Dead Letter Office, a B-side album compilation, included that recording, along with an acoustic version of "Gardening at Night". The song was also recorded during the Reckoning sessions, but not used (though bootlegged), and later recorded during the Lifes Rich Pageant demo sessions (this version was ...
Recorded September 15, 2004 at St. James Church, London; R.E.M. 2005 [123] [106] 2005 "Turn You Inside-Out" (live video) ... Dead Letter Office "Turn You Inside-Out"