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Album shows work of 19th century postal ‘detectives’

This month’s object of the month at the National Postal Museum is an album of dead letters that were brought back to life by the Post Office’s Dead Letter Office in the late 1800′s. The folks who worked at the Dead Letter Office obviously took pride in their work- according to the article at the museum’s web site:

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