Small Towns and Villages.—The name of the county in which a small town or village is located, should always be given in the address. If the person to whom the letter is written, lives in the country, the nearest post-office must be given, together with the county and state. The name of the place in which a person lives, and his post-office address, may be two very different things.
Mr. George Harvey,
Palmyra,
Lenawee Co.,
Mich.
REMARKS.
1. The title and name should be written first; the town, village, or post-office, second; the county, third; the state last.
2. Sometimes letters are detained at post-offices, by reason of the directions not being sufficiently complete.
Addressed Envelopes.—It is the custom with business firms, when an answer to a letter is asked as a favor, to send, within the letter, a stamped envelope properly addressed. The address is usually printed, so that no mistake can be made. In all cases, even when an addressed envelope is not required, when a favor is asked from an acquaintance or a friend, and an answer is desired, a postage stamp should always be inclosed. It is certainly an unpardonable presumption to ask even a friend to write a letter for a particular purpose, and expect him to pay for its proper delivery.
Letters with Special Request.—Sometimes directions are written or printed on envelopes as to the disposal of letters, if not called for within a certain time. This should always be done when addressing business letters. These directions are written or printed on the left of the envelope, near the top. See form on p. [81].
The Stamp.—The stamp should be placed in the right-hand corner of the envelope, near the top. It seems hardly necessary to say that every letter should be properly stamped, and yet between three and four hundred thousand letters are annually sent to the Dead Letter Office, because the writers had forgotten to properly stamp them.
FORMS OF ADDRESS.
