New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1919, Page 5

e 4,000,000 LETTERS BACK FROM FRANCE “Post Ofice Swamped by Unde- livered A. E. F. Mail York, April 11.—Four million | letters, each one containing a message or a gilt from the home folks to ¢ ““the American soldiers fighting ! s battle in France, have core New York, undelivered since July. Fortunately, the men do Lot now need the moral support to be | tound in the letters quite as much asi did at the time they were writ- However, the money which the{ ters contained in amounts ranging Strom a dollar to twenty dollars, and totaling approximately a million, prob- ably would be as acceptable now as it in 2 | problem of straight- this bewildering tangle has de- ved upon the dead letter depart- of the genetral postoffice at ty-first street and Eighth avenuc. core of clerks nave been at work| constantly, opening the letters and en- deavoring wnen possible to return enders. are endless in variety. call re- written us parents, wives or Learts, a time when America Wis in the thick of the fighting and no one could foresec that the end .was Lo come as quickly as it did Tell of Wanderings. e dispatched to France and there entered the tortuous machinery which took care of the xpeditionary force. The labels on the returning ters tell the story of their bout France i n o) in- dead letie at the rate of 25,000 The « malke i careful in- epection of one. [f the letter contiins the address of the writer it is mple matter to return it to him or with the note, that it never was aelivered, H Many letters are opened, however, vhich contain money gifts of varying amounts, but which do not cantain any address that +would help the clerks to trace the sender and return money. The money found in these held at the dead letter of- fice with a record of the letter. By the time all the undelivered letters have been returned from France it is e that this fund will have The government will never { to return all the maney to its 50 the question of what will with it is to be decided. » of Money Returned. .t the local office have suceeeded (o # créditable extent in untanglivg thc mess into which the muail of the expeditionary force was shuffled by the inefficiency of the mail service in France. A large amount of | money has been returned to the own- | crs and letters have been forwarded to eoldiers, on the principle of “better late than never.” A typleal case is that of a private in the marine corps fram an up-state city. When his friends and relatives | heard he was wounded at Chateau- | Thierry they dispatched an avalanche of mail to cheer him. Most of the let- ters contained money for the purchase of luxuries. Mosl of the letters never | reached him—at least not while hey was in France. He is back home now in a hospital near New York City'and | a woek ague Dhis family received a bulky peckage by parcel post, con- taining mest of the mail which had | beer sent to him while he was in}| France. The money gifts were intact, | and the marine enjoyed the odd ex- perience of reading the globe-trotting messages of his friends. Sold for Old Paper. Tlie letters which bear no address that can serve to identify the writer are sold for old paper. Many of the lstters bezr grim messages sprawled r their f . “Killed in action,” | sing”’ or ad” tell graphically | reason why the man for whom they are intendec was never able to read them. The letters sent from America to France are not the only ones that find their way Into the dead letter office. Pighting in France were a great many brothers and pals not always in the same ‘“outfit.”’ After being separated thev wroté to one another. and many of these letters are now in the dead lstter office in New York city. Packages come back, too, with a nondescript array of articles inside. They turnish a problem as difficult as | the other. ! 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