Effectiveness of "dead letter" office discussed. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

Complete Print Shop acknowledged making a "big mistake" by emailing the wrong letter to be reviewed by the recorder's office. But Huynh went on: The letter was approved by the recorder's office.

When Trump takes office on Monday, he’ll be the first president to serve nonconsecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s, when the letter-writing tradition didn’t exist.