Loss certificate, acting postmaster's copy
Certificate form from the acting postmaster's desk, carbon retained in the claim folder.
Parcel no. 418, A. Tolliver, Crane Court.
Certified lost in delivery bag while in charge of courier Vera Pike, afternoon round, 13 April.
Signature line: Osric Venn, acting postmaster.
The courier's receipt mark is copied in darker ink than the certificate body. The date in the loss sentence sits over a scraped patch.
Office comparison note:
Bag-book and window times do not agree. Pike signed for no insured parcel after the morning check; window 3 already shows no. 418 held by noon. Keep comparison note outside the certificate packet.
Pinned beside the form is a claimant statement in Cora Lyde's hand:
I accept the office finding and make no charge against the window clerk.