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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
118
I
beg
to
mention
here
a
specimen
I
met
of
this
old
system
of
private
accommodation,
with
the
consequence
that
followed,
which
may
illustrate
a
little
upon
which
side
the
imputation
of
ignorance,
arbitrary,
and
oppression
may
lie.
Having
met
this
post
with
a
light
cart
full
of
parcels,
and
a
woman
upon
it
along
with
the
mail,
I
charged
him
with
the
impropriety
of
his
conduct
as
a
post,
and
threatened
that
he
should
not
be
longer
in
the
service.
'Oh,'
says
he,
'sir,
you
may
do
as
you
please;
I
have
served
the
country
so
long
in
this
way,
that
if
you
dismiss
me,
the
principal
gentlemen
on
the
road
have
determined
to
support
me,
and
I
can
make
more
without
your
mail
than
I
do
by
it.'
He
was
dismissed.
He
was
supported
by
a
number
of
names
which
it
is
not
now
in
my
power
to
recollect,
but
which
are
well
known
in
Coupar-Angus,
and
he
issued
in
consequence
hand-bills
that,
being
now
dismissed
as
a
post,
he
would
continue
to
carry
on
as
before;
and
it
was
not
till
the
arbitrary
hand
of
the
Solicitor
of
the
Post-office
fell
upon
him,
that
he
would
either
have
been
convicted
or
discouraged
from
his
employ.
"In
this
view,
therefore,
and
not
from
ignorance,
I
know
it
is
better
for
the
Revenue
in
some
instances
to
pay
for
19
miles
of
a
post,
than
14
or
15,
and
to
pay
for
three
short
runners
than
one
long
one.
We
have
no
greater
faith
in
Blairgowrie
than
Coupar
posts,
and
they
were
both
put
upon
the
same
footing;
and
notwithstanding
all
the
arguments
stated
against
the
measure,
or
upon
the
absurdity,
arbitrary,
and
oppression,
so
much
insisted
on,
I
am
still
humbly
of
the
opinion,
which
was
maturely
weighed
and
decided,
that
the
system
now
in
practice
was
best
for
the
Revenue,
whatever
it
might
be
to
particular
individuals;
and
in
this
decision
I
only
followed
the
coincident
opinion
of
judgments
much
superior
to
my
own.
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