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SEE©»T!IIE AW© HAft¥EST. 
FORGETFULNESS . 
It is really surprising to those who are 
not doing business with the public at large, 
to note the frequency with which occurs 
the forgetfulness of persons ordering goods 
from a distance to give their name and full 
address with every order. Many persons 
seem to think that because they are old 
customers that we can readily remember 
all about them. The fact is in an establish¬ 
ment like ours, nothing is done from mem¬ 
ory. Dealing with so many different in¬ 
dividuals each order is taken in its turn, 
booked and numbered and filled, and the 
persons doing it would perhaps not know 
the next day that they ever heard of the 
person whose order has been handled. In 
writing us concerning any past or unfinish¬ 
ed business, it is therefore necessary to re¬ 
mind us fully of all that has transpired, 
and if possible, to return any previous 
correspondence which may have been had 
on the subject. Though you may be able to 
carry the whole transaction vividly in your 
mind we cannot. When one case is taken 
up others must be dismissed from our 
minds. Therefore always write us as ex¬ 
plicitly as though you supposed we know 
nothing about you or your case, alth mgh 
you may know that we ought to 1 ave it 
fresh in mind. 
We are forced to take a great amount of 
trouble to ascertain who and where persons 
are who do n»t tell us because they sup¬ 
pose that we we know them. As an illus¬ 
tration, and to enforce upon t ie memory of 
all, the importance of always giving name 
and location, we append sou e correspond¬ 
ence which will show how wo found a cus¬ 
tomer who sent an order with no signature. 
The order we filled and forwarded to the 
Post Master with the followh g line: 
La Plume, Pa., Feb. 4, 1884. 
Post Master, Lincoln, Neb.: Dear Sir, 
We send you this day four pack ages of seeds 
and ask you to please deliver tl em to the 
purchaser of Postal Note, No. 1£>4 at your 
office; said note was sent us with an order 
for seeds and no name signed to the order. 
Yours Truly, Isaac F. Tillingh ist. 
Not being able to tell who the person 
was, the Post Master caused the following 
notice to appear in one of the city papers: 
“Whose Seed? Some one writing from 
Lincoln to Isaac F. Tillinghast, seedsman, 
La Plume, Pa., enclosed a postal note and 
ordered one and a half pounds beet seed and 
half pound cucumber seed, but signed no 
name to the order. 
Mr. Tillinghast sends the seed to the post 
master to be delivered to the purchaser of 
the postal note, but as there is no record 
kept of purchasers of postal notes (as there 
is of money orders) the postmaster is un¬ 
able to deliver the seed. If this should 
catch the eye of the sender of the postal 
note he can have the seed by calling at the 
postoffice and answering a few perpendic¬ 
ular questions.” 
Soon after the publication of this item 
we received the following note from this 
accommodating Post Master: * 
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 8, 1884. 
Dear Sir: The enclosed card from you 
and the clipping from the newspaper ex¬ 
plain themselves. 
The item fell under the eye of O. Berlin- 
game, a market gardener of this city, who 
called, and by stating date and amount of 
postal note and n^ c s oi seed, fully es¬ 
tablished ownership, and I delivered them 
to him. Very Respectfully, 
J. C. McBride. Postmaster. 
It is not always that a bit of forgetfulness 
results so favorably to the patron. Failing 
to obtain a clue, we usually pigeon-hole such 
orders and await a “growl,” as our clerks 
term the letters of complaint. It is very 
perplexing to us when, as quite frequently 
happens, the “growler” again neglects to 
establish his identity by giving full address. 
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