Dead letter
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A dead letter
is one that can neither be delivered nor returned to sender. The term may also mean:
Dead letter mail
Dead letter mail or undeliverable mail is mail that cannot be delivered to the addressee or returned to the sender. This is usually due to lack of compliance with postal regulations, an incomplete address and return address, or the inability to forward the mail when both correspondents move before...
is one that can neither be delivered nor returned to sender. The term may also mean:
- "Dead letter", legislationLegislationLegislation is law which has been promulgated by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it...
which has not been revoked but is obsolete, inapplicable, or no longer enforced. - Dead LettersDead LettersDead Letters is the 2003 album by Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus. It was released in 2004 in the US, UK and Australia. Their previous album, Into, had been a success in some parts of Europe, particularly Scandinavia and Germany, but Dead Letters signified the band's major break-through...
, album by the Finnish band The Rasmus - "Dead Letters", third episode in the first season of the television seriesMillennium
- "Dead Letter", track #9 on KrankhausKrankhausKrankhaus is the debut studio album by Australian electro-industrial band Angelspit...
, album by Angelspit - "Dead Letter", track #1 on NigredoNigredoNigredo, or blackness, in alchemy means putrefaction or decomposition. The alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher's stone all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter....
, album by Diary of Dreams