All letters sent care of consulates late carefully. saved at the Dead [Letter OMce for at least a month fatter the consular authorities have fsiven up hope of delivery. Then, all channels failing, the letters are\returned to the country whence they jeame, providing, of course, the sender has neglected fo note a return ad-Jdress. In that case, in most cases the unclaimed letters, back at the Jcountry of their origin. are opened by [dead letter offices there in an attempt to return them to the sender. Almost all dead letters in Shanghai result from changes of addresses not registered with the postal, or consular authorities, or moves' which have taken place, with no record of a for-
No letters are opened in the Shangnal Post Office if they come from another country. Domestic letters Unclaimed for" three months are Jopened, their contents noted, and if anything of the slightest value is osed, all is carefully recorded and Saved for at least three more months. Tu the ease of registered letters, dom-fistic only in this instance, the letter is opened, its contents recorded and kept for five years before they become ithe property of the Post Ofice. [Registered foreign letters are kept jone month, and returned "home",
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