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  2. Dead letter mail - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Return address - Wikipedia

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    With this rise in dead mail, the post office pleaded for people to use a return address. Even after this, the public still tended to neglect to add a return address. This prompted the postmaster to inform the public that mail without a return address would be less of a priority than mail with a return address. Still, the public did not widely ...

  4. Nixie (postal) - Wikipedia

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    The USPS distinguishes a Nixie from other address errors in that the mail piece is always returned to the sender, whereas a change of address could either be forwarded or returned to the sender with a correction or notification. In the early 21st century the word began to be printed in the upper left corner of yellow labels generated by the ...

  5. United States Postal Service - Wikipedia

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    The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.

  6. Locatable Address Conversion System - Wikipedia

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    Locatable Address Conversion System (LACS) is a service offered by the United States Postal Service to update mailing addresses when a street is renamed or the address is updated for 911. In the case of 911, the address is changed from a rural route format to an urban/city route format.

  7. Here's what actually happens to letters addressed to Santa at ...

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    The United States Postal Service began receiving letters to Santa over 100 years ago, a spokesperson for the USPS told Business Insider. In 1912, Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized ...

  8. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Category:United States Postal Service - Wikipedia

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    Dead letter office; Delivery Bar Code Sorter; Domestic Mail Manual; ... National Change of Address; National Postal Museum; Network distribution center; Nixie (postal) O.