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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"Setting
the
distances
aside,
which
no
persons
should
have
a
right
to
complain
of
except
the
inhabitants
of
Coupar
and
beyond
it,
by
any
delay
occasioned
on
that
account,
what
is
the
whole
argument
founded
upon?
That,
by
the
alteration,
the
memorialists,
some
of
them
in
the
near
neighbourhood
of
Coupar-Angus,
but
betwixt
Perth
and
it,
have
had
the
privilege
from
time
immemorial,
as
it
is
said,
of
receiving
their
letters
by
the
post
from
Perth,
and
sending
them
back
by
the
same
conveyance
to
Perth,
without
benefiting
the
Revenue
a
single
sixpence,
which
would
accrue
to
it
by
such
letters
being
either
received
from
or
put
in
at
the
office
at
Coupar-Angus,
as
they
ought
to
be.
For,
so
far
as
I
understand
the
regulations
of
the
office,
they
are
to
this
purpose,
that
if
any
letters
shall
be
directed
for
intermediate
places,
at
least
three-fourths
from
any
post-office,
they
shall
be
put
into
the
bag
and
conveyed
(if
conveyed
at
all
by
post)
to
the
post-office
nearest
them,
or
at
which
they
shall
be
written,
one-fourth
of
the
distance
of
the
whole
stage,
and
rated
and
charged
accordingly.
The
Post-office
could
not
be
ignorant
of
this
rule
not
being
observed,
for
it
was
evident
that
very
few
letters
for
this
populous
and
thriving
district
were
put
into
the
bag,
except
such
as
behoved
to
go
beyond
Coupar
or
Perth,
and
bearing
the
name
of
'short
letters.'
It
was
impossible
to
convict
the
posts
of
fraud
in
carrying
them
without
opening
the
letters,
a
privilege
which
cannot
be
exercised
without
much
indelicacy
as
well
as
danger.
But
it
required
no
penetration
to
discover
that
this
was
a
very
commodious
and
cheap
way
of
corresponding,
though
it
did
not
augment
the
revenue.
It
was
an
ancient
privilege,
and
in
that
view
it
might
be
considered
arbitrary
and
oppressive
to
meddle
with
or
interrupt
it.
It
is
a
little
curious
that
the
memorialists
are
principally
gentlemen
of
property
upon
the
road
short
of
Coupar,
and
who
require
to
be
supplied
daily
with
their
small
necessary
articles
from
Perth.
I
have
seen
no
remonstrance
or
complaint
from
the
town
of
Coupar
itself
as
to
this
alteration,
nor
of
the
consequent
lateness
of
arrival
and
danger
it
is
said
to
have
occasioned,
nor
from
a
number
of
gentlemen
beyond,
whose
letters
come
in
the
bag
for
the
delivery
of
Coupar.
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