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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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The
noise
has
chiefly
been
made
by
gentlemen
who
pay
nothing
for
this
post
to
Coupar-Angus,
and
it
puts
me
in
mind
of
an
anecdote
I
met
with
of
a
gentleman
who
had
influence
enough
with
a
postmaster
in
the
country
to
get
the
post
by
his
house,
and
deliver
and
receive
his
letters,
proceeding
by
a
line
of
road
in
which
he
avoided
an
intermediate
office,
and
thereby
saved
an
additional
postage
both
ways.
"This
line
was
also
a
very
ancient
one,
and
from
time
immemorial
a
line
too
upon
which
our
forefathers
had
fought
hard
and
bled;
but
their
children
somehow
or
other
had
discovered
and
adopted
what
they
thought
a
much
better
line.
I
said
the
delivery
of
short
letters
was
not
all
the
advantages
privately
had
by
the
old
plan
of
the
post
to
Coupar-Angus.
This
post
was
in
the
known
and
constant
habit
of
carrying
a
great
deal
more
than
letters
for
the
inhabitants
short
of,
as
well
as
for
Coupar
itself;
and
in
the
delivery
of
various
articles
upon
the
road,
and
receiving
reimbursements
for
his
trouble
one
way
or
other,
he
lost
one-fourth
of
his
time;
and
if,
as
the
memorialists
assert,
there
are
fewer
places
to
be
served
on
the
Isla
road,
it
is
a
demonstration
that
the
longest
way
is
often
all
the
nearest,
and
upon
this
head
I
have
already
ventured
to
assert,
and
still
do,
that
by
a
regular
management
which
may
be
easily
accomplished,
the
post
may
come
sooner
by
Isla
to
Coupar
than
ever
it
did
formerly
by
the
ancient
road;
and
if
it
was
possible
to
watch
and
hunt
after
the
irregularity
of
the
post
as
established
upon
the
old
system,
the
memorialists
would
find
themselves
in
no
better
situation
than
they
now
are.
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