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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"A
great
deal
is
said
upon
the
danger
of
committing
care
of
bags
or
letters
to
two
separate
runners
instead
of
one.
With
regard
to
carrying
letters
privately,
or
executing
commissions,
it
may
be
so.
This
is
the
great
inconvenience
felt
from
the
change.
But
is
there
any
instance
where
posts
have
opened
any
of
the
bags
containing
letters,
and
thereby
committed
felony?
Is
there
any
instance
where
a
wilful
and
felonious
delay
has
happened
here
more
than
may
be
natural
to
any
change
of
bags
anywhere
else
in
the
kingdom?
I
have
heard
of
their
not
meeting
sometimes
so
regularly
in
very
bad
or
stormy
weather.
This
will
happen
to
the
most
regular
mail-coaches
and
horse-posts
in
Britain;
and
before
such
general
objections
are
to
be
founded
upon,
wilful
and
corrupt
misconduct
should
be
proved,
such
as
I
am
able
to
do
upon
the
old
system
of
one
post
only.
"The
poor
blacksmith
is
next
brought
forward.
I
do
not
know
that
a
man's
character
is
to
be
decided
by
his
calling.
He
was
engaged
by
the
Office
to
keep
a
receiving-house
for
the
runners.
He
is
paid
for
his
trouble
by
Government,
and
is
as
much
under
the
confidence
and
trust
of
the
Office,
till
he
proves
himself
unworthy
of
it,
as
the
postmasters
of
Perth,
Coupar-Angus,
or
Blairgowrie.
It
is
not
surprising,
however,
that
this
poor
blacksmith
should
be
in
general
terms
decided
unfit
for
such
duty,
when
officers
who
should
have
been
much
better
acquainted
with
the
hammer
and
nails
of
office,
do
not
know
how
to
drive
them!
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