Excerpt from Report of the Postmaster-General of the United States, 1890: Being Part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-First Congress Mail matter treated, 1029; disposal of matter received, 1030; disposal of mail matter opened, mo; foreign dead mail matter, 1031; matter returned from foreign coun tries, 1031; dead registered matter, 1031; value of inclosures restored to owners, 1032; postage-stamps in dead letters, 1032; dead matter given to charitable insti tutions. 1033; correspondence, 1033; number of pieces treated, 1033; disposal of mail matter opened, 1035; unmailable hotel and fictitious matter, 1030; number of letters returned by foreign countries, 1037; quantity of matter returned to and received from certain foreign countries, 1037; disposal of dead registered letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.