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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
109
So
that
here
a
whole
district
of
country
was
to
be
opened
up
to
the
beneficent
operations
of
the
Post
at
an
annual
cost
of
what
would
now
be
no
more
than
sufficient
to
pay
the
wages
of
a
single
post-runner.
It
may
be
proper,
however,
to
remark
in
this
connection,
that
money
then
was
of
greater
value
than
now;
and
since
it
has
been
shown
that
a
messenger
had
formerly
to
travel
as
much
as
fourteen
double
miles
for
2s.,
it
is
not
surprising
that
Scotchmen,
brought
up
in
such
a
school,
should
like
to
cling
to
a
sixpence
when
they
can
get
it.
It
were
remiss
to
pass
over
London
without
remark,
whose
growth
is
a
marvel,
and
whose
Post-office
has
at
least
kept
up
in
the
running,
if
it
has
not
outstripped,
London
itself.
In
1796
the
delivery
of
London
extended
from
about
Grosvenor
Square
and
Mayfair
in
the
west,
to
Shadwell,
Mile
End,
and
Blackwall
in
the
east;
and
from
Finsbury
Square
in
the
north,
to
the
Borough
and
Rotherhithe
in
the
south;
and
the
number
of
postmen
then
employed
for
the
general
post-delivery
was
126.
London
has
since
taken
into
its
maternal
embrace
many
places
which
were
formerly
quite
separate
from
the
metropolis,
and
nowadays
the
agglomeration
is
known,
postally,
as
the
Metropolitan
district.
In
this
district
the
number
of
men
required
to
effect
the
delivery
of
letters
in
1884
is
no
less
than
4030.
It
may
be
mentioned
that
the
general
post-delivery
above
mentioned
had
reference
to
the
delivery
of
ordinary
letters
coming
from
the
country.
Letters
of
the
penny
post--or
local
letters--and
letters
from
foreign
parts,
were
delivered
by
different
sets
of
men,
who
all
went
over
the
same
ground.
In
1782
the
number
of
men
employed
in
these
different
branches
of
delivery
work
was
as
follows,
viz.:--
Men.
For
Foreign
letters,
12
"
Inland
letters,
99
"
Penny-post
letters,
44
Total,
155
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