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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Mr.
Palmer
might
not
be,
and
really
was
not,
acquainted
with
all
the
working
arrangements
of
the
office
he
was
seeking
to
improve:
yet
it
was
quite
patent
to
all
outside
the
Post-Office
that
the
entire
establishment
needed
remodelling.
Mr.
Hodgson,
however,
and
his
confrères
"were
amazed,"
they
said,
"that
any
dissatisfaction,
any
desire
for
change,
should
exist."
The
Post-Office
was
already
perfect
in
their
eyes.
It
was,
at
least,
"almost
as
perfect
as
it
can
be,
without
exhausting
the
revenue
arising
therefrom."
They
could
not
help,
therefore,
making
a
united
stand
against
any
such
new-fangled
scheme,
which
they
predict
"will
fling
the
commercial
correspondence
of
the
country
into
the
utmost
confusion,
and
which
will
justly
raise
such
a
clamour
as
the
Postmaster-General
will
not
be
able
to
appease."
Another
of
the
principal
officers,
a
Mr.
Allen,
who
seems
to
have
been
more
temperate
in
his
abuse
of
the
new
proposals,
gave
it
as
his
opinion,
"that
the
more
Mr.
Palmer's
plan
was
considered,
the
greater
number
of
difficulties
and
objections
started
to
its
ever
being
carried
completely
into
execution."
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