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The U.S. Post Office, as it was known then, started a dead letter office in 1825 to deal with undeliverable mail. By 1893, it handled about 20,000 items every day. [ 6 ] Patti Lyle Collins was a long-time employee of the office, responsible for the redirection of an estimated 1,000 letters a day. [ 13 ]
A letter found in a stolen Bible makes its way to the Dead Letter Office ten years after it was written. It contains a dark secret that was written the same night the sender died. The letter reveals that Melissa, wife of D.A. Michael Wheeler, was raped the night before their wedding and Abby, their daughter, is the product of said rape.
Patti Lyle Collins was a writer and an American civil servant who worked in the Dead Letter Office of the United States Post Office Department.Nicknamed the "Blind Reader", Collins was known for her ability to determine the destination of letters with hard to read or incomplete addresses.
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It saved one additional such bill for Thursday: renaming a post office in Plains, Ga., the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Post Office. ... it appears to be a dead letter politically.
A mystery letter found in a Muskegon post office dates back to the World War II era, FOX17 reports. Now, officials are working to track down the relatives of either who sent it or who it was sent to.
April 4, 2006, Baker City, Oregon: While on duty, Grant Gallaher, a letter carrier for 13 years, reportedly went home and got his .357 Magnum revolver and drove to the city post office with the intention of killing the postmaster. Arriving at the parking lot, he ran over his supervisor several times.
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.