"SHSI Certificate of Recognition"
"Best on the Web"


Encyclopedia Dubuque

www.encyclopediadubuque.org

"Encyclopedia Dubuque is the online authority for all things Dubuque, written by the people who know the city best.”
Marshall Cohen—researcher and producer, CNN

Affiliated with the Local History Network of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and the Iowa Museum Association.




DEAD LETTER OFFICE: Revision history

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Diff selection: Mark the radio buttons of the revisions to compare and hit enter or the button at the bottom.
Legend: (cur) = difference with latest revision, (prev) = difference with preceding revision, m = minor edit.

12 September 2023

30 June 2023

  • curprev 18:2218:22, 30 June 2023‎ Randylyon talk contribs‎ 3,611 bytes +3,611‎ Created page with "DEAD LETTER OFFICE. During the CIVIL WAR, hundreds of thousands of young men in uniform wrote letters to loved ones back home. Many of the soldiers, however, were poorly educated or had never addressed a letter. Undecipherable envelopes were collected and sent to the Dead Letter Office (DLO). In 1825, the Dead Letter Office (DLO) in Washington, D.C., had been established specifically to investigate undeliverable mail and make it possible to forward it to its intend..."
Retrieved from "https://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php/DEAD_LETTER_OFFICE"