During Allen's farm of the cross and bye post letters, missent letters were no longer forwarded to London, but any postmaster, into whose hands they came, was instructed to place them on the right track.
Previously, dead and missent letters had been handed to a clerk in the General Office.
There is, of course, a strong resemblance between the names of the two places as written, yet the missent letters must have passed through the hands of two or three sorters before reaching Edinburgh.
The one missent must first be attended to; it had been written five days ago.
The one missent must be first attended to; it had been written five days ago.
The dead and missentletters were a source of continual trouble.
In 1784 only a part of the dead letters and letters that had been missent went to the newly-created dead letter office.
How to dispose of dead letters and how to get back into their proper channel letters that had been missent were questions which not seldom perplexed even Allen himself.
According to his instructions a postmaster who should find himself in possession of a dead or missent letter was to send it to Bath in order that allowance might be made for the postage with which, otherwise, he would stand charged.
We know that letters which could not be delivered and letters which had been missent were always treated together.
It was to the effect that no allowance would be made in respect to any dead or missent letters which should not bear on their covers the name of the office whence the postmaster by whom the allowance was claimed had received them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "missent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
