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In February, the House voted 309 to 106 to scrap the pre-funding requirement, but the bill has gone into the Senate’s dead-letter box.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2020

“This has been considered a dead-letter doctrine by many people. But he has a libertarian streak and a greater skepticism about federal power,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2019

You can look at mail that was sent to the dead-letter office as undeliverable and see if you can decipher the addresses.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018

We schooled ourselves in dead-letter drops, though I cannot recall what was written in those furtive little notebooks.

From Slate • May 8, 2013

There is a dead-letter office, and the lists are published monthly at the presses of El Cubano Libre.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various