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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
110
It
was
not
till
many
years
later
that
all
kinds
of
letters
came
to
be
delivered
by
one
set
of
postmen,
and
that
thus
needless
repetition
of
work
was
got
rid
of.
At
the
same
period--namely,
in
1782--the
other
officers
of
all
kinds
employed
in
the
London
Post-office
numbered
157.
At
the
present
time
the
officers
of
all
kinds
(exclusive
of
postmen,
who
have
been
referred
to
separately)
employed
in
the
Metropolitan
district
are
nearly
16,000
in
number.
CHAPTER
IX.
CLAIMS
FOR
POST-OFFICE
SERVICE.
In
his
Autobiography,
Mr
Anthony
Trollope,
many
years
a
Post-office
surveyor,
records
how
he
was
employed
in
England,
for
a
considerable
period
about
the
year
1851,
revising
and
extending
the
rural-post
service;
and
he
there
mentions
the
frequency
with
which
he
found
post-runners
to
be
employed
upon
routes
where
there
were
but
few
letters
to
deliver--while
in
other
directions,
where
postal
communication
would
have
been
of
the
utmost
benefit,
there
were
no
post-runners
at
all.
This
state
of
things
had
no
doubt
had
its
origin
in
the
efforts
of
influential
persons,
at
some
previous
time,
to
have
the
services
established
for
their
own
personal
benefit;
while
persons
in
other
districts,
having
less
interest
at
headquarters,
or
being
less
imperious
in
their
demands,
were
left
out
in
the
cold,
and
so
remained
beyond
the
range
of
the
civilising
influence.
The
posts
in
such
cases,
once
established,
went
on
from
year
to
year;
and
though
the
arrangements
were
out
of
harmony
with
the
surroundings,
very
often
nothing
was
done--for
in
all
likelihood
no
one
complained
loud
enough,
or,
at
any
rate,
in
a
way
to
prove
effective.
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