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dead letter office

An institution within post where letters with no adresee are collected and opened in order to trace the adresee. If they remain unknown, the letters are burnt.
She was depressed, working in a dead letter office, reading all that stuff people write just to find out there is no one who will eventually receive these letters.
by necrotism June 11, 2006
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