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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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"The
oldest
and
ablest
officers
in
the
service"
represented
them
"not
only
to
be
impracticable,
but
dangerous
to
commerce
and
the
revenue."[56]
The
accounts
of
the
way
in
which
they
met
some
of
his
proposals
is
most
amusing
and
instructive.
Thus,
Palmer
recommended
Mr.
Pitt
to
take
some
commercial
men
into
his
councils,
and
they
would
not
fail
to
convince
him
of
the
great
need
there
was
for
change.
He
also
submitted
that
the
suggestions
of
commercial
men
should
be
listened
to
more
frequently,
when
postal
arrangements
for
their
respective
districts
should
be
made.
Mr.
Hodgson,
one
of
the
prominent
officers
of
the
Post-Office,
indignantly
answered
that
"it
was
not
possible
that
any
set
of
gentlemen,
merchants,
or
outriders
(commercial
travellers,
we
suppose),
could
instruct
officers
brought
up
in
the
business
of
the
Post-Office.
And
it
is
particularly
to
be
hoped,"
said
this
gentlemen,
with
a
spice
of
malice,
"if
not
presumed,
that
the
surveyors
need
no
such
information."
He
"ventured
to
say,
that
the
post
as
then
managed
was
admirably
connected
in
all
its
parts,
well-regulated,
carefully
attended
to,
and
not
to
be
improved
by
any
person
unacquainted
with
the
whole.
It
is
a
pity,"
he
sarcastically
added,
"that
Mr.
Palmer
should
not
first
have
been
informed
of
the
nature
of
the
business
in
question,
to
make
him
understand
how
very
differently
the
post
and
post-offices
are
conducted
to
what
he
apprehends."
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