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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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From
arguing
on
the
general
principles
involved,
they
then
descend
to
combat
the
working
arrangements
of
the
theatre-manager
with
even
less
success.
Mr.
Palmer
complains
that
the
post
is
slow,
and
states
that
it
ought
to
outstrip
all
other
conveyances.
Mr.
Hodgson
"could
not
see
why
the
post
should
be
the
swiftest
conveyance
in
England.
Personal
conveyances,
I
apprehend,
should
be
much
more,
and
particularly
with
people
travelling
on
business."
Then
followed
Mr.
Draper,
another
official,
who
objected
to
the
coaches
as
travelling
too
fast.
"The
post,"
he
said,
"cannot
travel
with
the
expedition
of
stage-coaches,
on
account
of
the
business
necessary
to
be
done
in
each
town
through
which
it
passes,
and
without
which
correspondence
would
be
thrown
into
the
utmost
confusion."
Mr.
Palmer
had
proposed
that
the
coaches
should
remain
fifteen
minutes
in
each
town
through
which
they
passed,
to
give
time
to
transact
the
necessary
business
of
sorting
the
letters.
Mr.
Draper
said
that
half
an
hour
was
not
enough,
as
was
well
enough
known
to
persons
at
all
conversant
with
Post-Office
business.
Living
in
this
age
of
railways
and
steam,
we
have
just
reason
to
smile
at
such
objections.
Then,
as
to
the
appointment
of
mail-guards,
Mr.
Palmer
might,
but
Mr.
Hodgson
could,
see
no
security,
though
he
could
see
endless
trouble,
expense,
and
annoyance
in
such
a
provision.
"The
man
would
doubtless
have
to
be
waited
for
at
every
alehouse
the
coach
passed."
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