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Post offices send dead parcels to one of 15 regional dead parcel post branches at Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Honolulu, New Orleans, New York City, Omaha, St. Paul, San Francisco, San Juan, Seattle and Washingtn, D. C.
Sometimes, lost parcels are not suitable for auction Some years back, officials recall, a crate of shrunken heads turned up in the lost parcels, and wad gingerly turn ed Over to appropriate authorities in the field of museum work.
Lost items must really be unusual, though before they are held off the auction block. For example, % does not bother the Washington. D. C. dead parcel office one bit to note that camel riding is no; among the leading sports is the United States, and they think nothing of auctioning off camel saddles. Casket handles also seem to meet a steady sale at the auctions. One lost parcel in ten is lost because of inadequate addressing.' This includes illegible addressing, incomplete addressing, incorrect addressing, and no addressing, r ^_^ti«|ueotly, ev en when the address can be deciphered, it is completely erroneous, addressed to die wrong street, and sometime even to the wrong city and the wrhng state ‘ It is always puzzling to postal ’personnel to find a parcel which* hat been obviously addressed in a i-a-ty scrawl; which h » obvJbusly t /amt 2 seconds, while the parcel itself is lavishly gift wrap-' ped and has obviously required hours to prepare. 4
Another <se &f loss is insuffic-^ lent or ' isdei uate packaging and wrapping.
For example, postal personm 1
are accirtonift' to string' highly
» r-ticle- packed in flimsy hat boxes without any f adding or excelsior, or heavy parrels jyrapped in tissue paper.' , ^ ;
Often, mailers will spend many dollars on the gift, but will wrap it in scrap newspapers, tofu up paper, bags, and so forth., ^Experience of die Postal Service has shown that this is poor economy, and Invites loss. A good rule is to tire only, materials of good 'qua -heavy twine and strong, new paoer, for example-^ and use an adequate amount of
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