Letter Reaches Laura Marsh - 1893

MARSH

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 5/12/2006 at 07:18:06

Davenport Weekly Leader; Davenport, Scott, Iowa; Wednesday, April 19, 1893

---A case illustrating the high grade of efficiency to which the mail service of this country has been brought has come to light in Mt. Pleasant [Henry Co, IA]. Miss Laura Marsh of that place received a letter yesterday addressed to her "N. Main street, Iowa U.S.A." The letter was from Europe. When it reached New York the postal clerk sent it on to Burlington, because he knew the letter should go to an Iowa town having a free deliver system from the fact that it was addressed to N. Main street. No "Miss Laura Marsh" was found in Burlington, so the letter was forwarded to the next nearest of the numerous Iowa towns having free delivery and a North Main street. It was delivered to Miss Marsh without delay.