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• Dead Letter Office (album) — Dead Letter Office Compilation album by R.E.M. Released …   Wikipedia

• Dead Letter Circus (EP) — Dead Letter Circus EP by Dead Letter Circus Released 5 May 2007 …   Wikipedia

• Dead letter mail — Dead letter redirects here. For other uses, see Dead letter (disambiguation). 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… …   Wikipedia

• Dead Letter Office — Compilation par R.E.M. Sortie 27 avril 1987 Enregistrement 1981 1986 Durée 43:22 63:51 (avec le EP Chronic Town) Genre College rock …   Wikipédia en Français

• Dead Letter Dept. — Dead Letter Dept. Origin Ontario, Canada Genres punk, emo, pop punk Labels Underground Operations, Ductape Records, Noo Noo Records …   Wikipedia

• Dead Letter Circus — Жанры Альтернативный рок, прогрессив рок Годы 2005  наши дни Страна …   Википедия

• dead letter — {n. phr.} An undeliverable letter that ends up in a special office holding such letters. * /There is a dead letter office in most major cities./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• dead letter — {n. phr.} An undeliverable letter that ends up in a special office holding such letters. * /There is a dead letter office in most major cities./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• Dead letter — Letter Let ter, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L. littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by graving the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• dead letter — in general use, is properly a rule or regulation that is no longer observed; for example, capital punishment is a dead letter when it remains on the statute book although it is not used. The term should not be applied to aspects of life that have …   Modern English usage

• dead letter drop — dead letter box or dead letter drop, a place for depositing secret messages and other material without having to come in direct contact with the recipient: »[The spy] had been collecting intelligence material and dispatching it to his masters… …   Useful english dictionary