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In the 1947 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.
Dead Letter Office is a rarities and B-sides collection by R.E.M., released in April 1987. The album is essentially a collection of many additional recordings R.E.M. made from before Murmur to Lifes Rich Pageant that were outtakes or released as B-sides to their singles internationally.
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Learn how the USPS deals with mystery mail that can't be delivered or returned, from Benjamin Franklin's threats to modern technology. Discover the origins, functions and stories of the Dead Letter Office and its employees.
Dead Letter Office is an international tribute to the legendary rock band R.E.M. They perform live shows that recreate the music and energy of a R.E.M. concert, with members of R.E.M. joining them on stage.
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From mystery addresses and deficient postage to unclaimed items, undeliverable mail fell to the care and handling of the Dead Letter Office. For most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Dead Letter Office functioned to ensure all measures were taken to uphold the bargain that postage paid assured delivery.
About “Dead Letter Office”. Dead Letter Office is a collection of B-sides and rarities collected and released in 1987. It contains covers of Velvet Underground, Aerosmith, Pylon, and...
