Chapter 380. To provide for the return of undelivered letters and for other purposes
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CHAP. 380.— An Act To provide for the return of undelivered letters and for other purposes. June 24, 1910.[[S. 8094](/us/bill/61/s/8094).][[Public, No. 263](/us/pl/61/263).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Postal service. That section thirty-nine hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 3939. Undelivered letters. Return to writer at time of request.
When the writer of any letter on which the postage is prepaid shall indorse on the outside thereof his name and address, such letter shall not be advertised, but, after remaining uncalled for at the [R. S., sec. 3939, p. 764](/us/rs/s3939/p764), amended. office to which it is directed the time the writer may direct or the Postmaster-General prescribe, shall be returned to the writer without additional charge for postage, and if not then delivered, shall be treated as a dead letter.
” " Approved, June 24, 1910.