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	National Postal Museum
		Once opened, the contents of letters were considered sacred, so much so that the dead letter clerks were—and still are—forbidden to read any more of the communications than absolutely necessary to determine where the letters should go.
		At the end of the 19th century it was not uncommon for the clerks in the Dead Letter Office to handle as many as 23,000 pieces of "dead" mail daily.
		On an average, over 80,000 of the letters and packages forwarded to the Dead Letter Office at that time didn't contain any address at all, and on much of the rest, the information provided was either incomplete or so poorly written that the addressee could not be found.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /resources/6a2c_deadletters.html (1190 words)

	The Dead Letter Office
		When you submit your words to The Dead Letter Office database, your letter is added to a collection of Dead Letters of other people from around the world whom you will never meet.
		Dead Letters are not organized by any system.
		The only words that appear on your Dead Letter are the words you enter in the space provided.
	www.thedeadletter.com /write.html (427 words)

	[Nettime-bold] WEBSITE: Dead Letter Office
		Send us whatever you think might be an evocation of the "dead letter" concept - any document or idea that has somehow failed to reach or communicate with the addressed audience.
		We at the Dead Letter Office closely evaluate everything we receive.
		So remove that old beloved manuscript from your desk drawer, or those slides of paintings from your garage, or that weird beautiful idea from the confines of your head, then shake out the dust and submit to: The Dead letter Office P.O. Box 81236 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 or e-mail to: postmaster {AT} deadletters.com Sincerely, Mrs.
	www.nettime.org /Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0006/msg00064.html (343 words)

	The Dead Letter Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When you submit your words to The Dead Letter Office database, your letter is added to a collection of Dead Letters of other people from around the world whom you will never meet.
		Dead Letters are not organized by any system.
		The only words that appear on your Dead Letter are the words you enter in the space provided.
	thedeadletter.com /write.html (427 words)

	Dead Letter Office -DLO
		The intent of the Dead Letter Office page is to illustrate covers that show the fees that were required to return certain letters from the Dead Letter Office (DLO).
		The emphasis is on the fees that were charged to return or forward dead letters, not an amount that might have caused a letter to be short paid by the sender.
		Dead letters are letters that could not be delivered to the addressees and no return address is on the envelope.
	stampsjoann.net /dlo/dlo-fees.html (809 words)

	Dead letter office gave rise to official seals
		This undeliverable letter sent from Hobart, Tasmania, to Broken Hill, New South Wales, was forwarded to and examined by the Sydney, New South Wales, dead letter office.
		It was used by the dead letter office to reseal letters.
		It is then the job of the dead letter office to open the mailpiece and look for clues to aid in delivering the mailpiece or in returning it to sender.
	www.linns.com /howto/refresher/dead_20050725/refreshercourse.asp?uID= (1427 words)

	Dead letter office - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One famous fictional employee of the dead letter office is Bartleby, the title-character of Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street."
		In the film Miracle on 34th Street, two mail sorters handle a letter addressed to "Kris Kringle" at the New York City courthouse, and decide to deliver all the Santa Claus mail now in the dead letter office to the courthouse, where a man calling himself Kris Kringle is facing a mental competency hearing.
		The term "dead letter office" may be used in non-postal offices, in reference to any room of disused materials resembling a dead letter office.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_letter_office (516 words)

	Dead Letter Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Dead Letter Office collects, processes, and redistributes manuscripts or documents that have either been rejected for publication by literary journals or that somehow otherwise fit under the moniker of a "dead letter." We break the seal on untapped prose, poetry, actual correspondence, and any other format, seeking out the gems.
		The Dead Letter Office wants to provide readers, authors and other creators with blank slates on which to draw their own maps.
		Think of the Dead Letter office as a vast literary junkyard in which you have been given free reign to explore and make discoveries.
	www.deadletters.com /about.html (251 words)

	Melville, 'Timothy Quicksand,' and the Dead-Letter Office
		The second letter constitutes a proposal for a Family Universal History in which the divisions employed will be based "on the conspicuous manifestations of the development of intellect" (p.
		Buried in a preface to three comic-satiric letters, this litany of human vanities, calamities, and dashed hopes is reworked by Melville into the far more powerful statement on the effect that the Dead-Letter Office had upon the young Bartleby.
		While arguing for the publication of his volume of revived "dead letters," Timothy Quicksand goes off on a tangent on the importance of the "science, which teaches 'to know the character of men by their handwriting.' that important branch of physiognomics!" (p.
	www.ku.edu /~zeke/bartleby/monteiro.html (1072 words)

	Forum: Dead letter office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Letters from "Aunt Minnie," as the service calls single-piece first-class letters that carry a 39-cent stamp, are now the minority and declining steadily.
		Gene Del Polito, president of the Association for Postal Commerce, says that case promises to be "the mother of all rate cases" as the Postal Service attempts to shift more of its $70-billion-a-year costs to the big mailers who compose Mr.
		With postal executives recognizing that letter volume may have peaked and with newer sorting machines capable of handling the work with fewer employees, the agency has begun what it hopes will be an intricate dance to downsize without having to lay off workers or upsetting Congress.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06015/637773.stm (1107 words)

	In D.C., a dead letter office? - The Boston Globe
		But dozens of people had to be decontaminated and three Senate office buildings were shut down after an intern in Senate majority leader Bill Frist's office found a suspicious white powder while going through letters in his mailroom.
		More than 6,000 workers were locked out their offices for two days, many of them longer, as experts collected, tested, and probably destroyed unopened letters throughout the Capitol to ensure no others posed a biohazard.
		Often, letters from their constituents are yellowed or shredded by the decontamination screening, if they show up at all, lawmakers complain.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/02/08/in_dc_a_dead_letter_office (637 words)

	Dead Letters: an excerpt from Speaking into the Air by John Durham Peters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Dead Letter Office is often called "the morgue of the mails" and "the limbo of undeliverable mail." Limbo is the place of oblivion where the souls remain who cannot enter heaven owing to incorrect addressing (such as lack of baptism).
		Every three months the accumulated letters are "solemnly burned" at a place outside of the city, like the biblical Gehenna, "no human being but their writers knowing how much of labor and pain has been expended upon them, thus to perish by fire and be exhaled in smoke" (94).
		Dead letters are, in an Augustinian mode, emblematic of our mortal state, prone to become lost in transit.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/662764.html (2474 words)

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		Much can be found on Proquest about Francis Veber however none of the articles were in reference to “Dead letter office.” I was surprised to find out that both VH1 and MTV had “Dead letter office” listed on their film pages which means that they have shown the film at some time.
		The letters always came back marked with the seal of the dead letter office and after a while she gave up hope and stopped writing.
		She meets strange new individuals in the dead letter office and they touch her life, most of all Frank, the head of the operation.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/film/dbase/2005/dead.doc (1680 words)

	The Dead Letter Office
		The central theme of the "dead letters" paragraph of Melville's story is missed connections: the letters are dead because they do not, in the usual living way, reach the addressee with the cheering message, or the love expressed by the enclosed ring, or the money necessary for charity.
		From such a description, Melville extracts, and changes, one telling detail: "by the cart-load they are annually burned." But, as a subordinate clerk in Washington's dead letter office, Bartleby would have undertaken the duties that Copcutt describes.
		Should the letters contain money or other valuables, they are laid on a side-table, and a recording-clerk ranges them alphabetically, in the boxes prepared for that purpose, and writes to the writer of the letter, stating that it has been received.
	www.ku.edu /~zeke/bartleby/robillar.html (623 words)

	English VCE 2001 - Dead Letter Office
		Dead Letter Office is not only the setting of this film, directed by John Ruane (with a script by Deborah Cox), but also a repository for lost mail and vulnerable souls as well.
		Living a somewhat aimless and emotionally hollow existence, Alice eventually takes a job at the Dead Letter Office of the Post Office, as a pretext to fulfil her idealistic dreams of a happy reunion with her father.
		This romance allows them release from the sanctuary that the Dead Letter Office offers them and allows them to move on with their lives.
	www.pvgsc.vic.edu.au /home/gum/VCE2001/Text3.html (210 words)

	The Death Clock - Dead Letter Office
		DLO for the week of May 11, 2003
		I don't agree with all the other letters you got.
		I think that this site is a great idea, because it gives people a feeling of when they are going to pass on.
	www.deathclock.com /dlo.cfm (151 words)

	Dead Letter Office by R.E.M. CD
		DEAD LETTER OFFICE is a collection of early B-sides and unreleased tracks.
		The most striking and inspirational thing about DEAD LETTER OFFICE is that no matter how much effort the band expends, every track displays an innate genius and an intimate level of musical communication.
		Dead Letter Office sums up R.E.M. prior to their leaving IRS Records for Warner Bros - it is not a hits collection but rather B-sides and outtakes, including several excellent covers.
	cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1059393/a/Dead+Letter+Office.htm (432 words)

	Dead Letter Office (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She continued to share her life with him in letters that she sent not realising that he never received them...
		Letters with no destination end up in another world found in the back rooms of the post office.
		This film succeeds where Garry Marshall's other dead letter office flic DEAR GOD (1996 - USA) failed, and comes close to the brilliance of, not the Kevin Costner turkey, but He Jianjun's POSTMAN (1995 - China).
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0118939 (349 words)

	Dead Letter Office
		Dead Letter Office shows so well how important written words are to literal societies like ours.
		Dead Letter Office is a moving but not a tragic film which subtly addresses life insights.
		The Dead Letter Office is a fascinating place to work.
	www.goldweb.com.au /~plankton/reelist/htmls/D/deadlett.htm (608 words)

	[Omline] Dead Letter Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dead Letter Office will someday be a collection of letters to everyone I've ever cared about, an attempt to be truthful before my unscheduled death.
		The letters are presented in the same order that they were written.
		In some cases, names may be obscured for the sake of the intended recipient.
	www.omline.com /deadletter (69 words)

	SongBook \| Dead Letter Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dead Letter Office on CD is a double dip into the R.E.M. archives.
		There are six of them on Dead Letter Office, which offers a chance to see how the band interpreted the work of its inspirations and contemporaries.
		You definitely need to be in the right frame of mind for Dead Letter Office, but it's a very enjoyable listening experience if you're in the mood for a little quirkiness.
	www.thelogbook.com /disc/rem/dlo.htm (476 words)

	The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: News Blog
		They did and, in January, the new director-general, Richard Sheldrake, said the department had classified the letter as exempt on several grounds, including that its release was not in the public interest.
		The letter was now so old the cosy relationship between the department and those accused of breaking the law was just another bit of history.
		To demonstrate such incompetence and dereliction of duty in not upholding the Law/legislation meant to protect the native vegetation of NSW is beyond comprehension.
	blogs.smh.com.au /newsblog/archives/freedom_of_information/005347.html (1472 words)

	Dead Letter Office (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in 1987.
		The album was initially issued as a 15-song collection on vinyl and cassette, but when its CD edition appeared (now the only available edition of Dead Letter Office), the legendary and obscure Chronic Town EP from 1982 was slotted in.
		Dead Letter Office originally reached #52 in the U.S. and #60 in the UK.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_Letter_Office_(album) (526 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dead Letter Office: Music: R.E.M. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Barring the 'CHRONIC TOWN' part of it, 'DEAD LETTER OFFICE' is strictly for avid R.E.M. fans, to complete their collection of R.E.M. albums.
		"Dead Letter Office" is a record of R.E.M. duds...
		But if you own Dead Letter Office you get the novelty of owning two songs that REM recorded while drunk: Walters Theme and King of the Road.
	www.amazon.ca /Dead-Letter-Office-R-E-M/dp/B000001I0I (1677 words)

	www.myspace.com/dlouk
		Dead Letter Office are an alternative/progressive rock band from Kidderminster near Birmingham in the UK.
		Dead Letter Office are a triumph; an intense blend of Pixies/Joy Division fractured guitars, breath-taking and delicate Radiohead/Muse tinged anthems and an awe-inspiring sense of drama.
		Dead Letter Office don't want to fit into any scene, or to blend in.
	www.myspace.com /dlouk (2021 words)

	Dead Letter Office - REM - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Dead Letter Office - REM : Drunk and disorderly...
		DEAD LETTER OFFICE contains several cover versions ('Crazy' by Pylon, 'Toys In The Attic' by Aerosmith, and no less than three Velvet Underground tracks).
		You get a much clearer picture of the roots and influences of the band than you do on most of their studio albums, and Michael Stipe's whispering vocals are well-suited to much of this material, particularly the version of 'Femme Fatale'.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/dead-letter-office-rem (258 words)

	Dead Letter Office
		Remember that just because a story or poem has been rejected from one outlet doesn't mean it won't be accepted by the next.
		Don't bother to reply to a rejection letter or email - the editor's decision is always final.
		Read as much you can by contemporary writers; it's important to be aware of the conventions of the day and know what sort of material is getting published.
	www.lboro.ac.uk /departments/ea/dead_letter_office/Next_step_for_writers/Next_step_for_writers.htm (732 words)

	DLO, the Dead Letter Office at National Highway
		DLO, the Dead Letter Office at National Highway
		A 1951 law held that “should a post card be posted without the postage having been prepaid in full, it will be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office (DLO) to be destroyed forthwith”.
		A suitably non-violent movement grew against the provision with numerous representations to the Government of India on the matter.
	www.shivamvij.com /2006/09/dlo-the-dead-letter-office.html (337 words)

	POST OFFICE IN PARADISE - Dead Letter Office Marks
		Usage: in red during the late 1860's; in fl from June 30, 1887 to August 31, 1893.
		DEAD LETTER OFFICE/HONOLULU H. I. 38mm x 20mm box; purple, red
		DEAD LETTER OFFICE/Honolulu, H. 45mm x 26mm oval; purple, red
	www.hawaiianstamps.com /deadoffice.html (154 words)

	Dead Letter Office
		Dead Letter Office, released in 1987, is a sampling of some tracks from R.E.M.'s early days.
		It was around the time I bought Dead Letter Office (in '91, I think) that I realized what a cool band I had adopted as one of my favorites.
		Dead Letter Office is worth buying for Chronic Town, the cover of Pylon's "Crazy," and for two tracks in particular.
	members.fortunecity.com /culturedose/review_10001682.html (623 words)

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