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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
126
As
the
duties
in
the
T.P.O.
are
for
the
most
part
performed
during
the
night,
the
sorters
employed
have
a
great
deal
of
night-work,
and
in
some
cases
their
terms
of
duty
are
very
broken
and
irregular.
Thus,
with
the
hardships
they
have
to
endure
in
periods
of
severe
frost,
when
no
heating
apparatus
is
supplied
except
a
few
warming-pans,
they
live
a
life
of
duty
far
removed
from
ease
or
soft
idleness.
The
large
pieces
of
leather
with
stout
straps
attached,
already
referred
to,
called
pouches,
are
used
as
a
protection
to
mail-bags
which
have
to
be
delivered
by
what
is
commonly
known
as
the
apparatus.
The
mail-bags
to
be
so
disposed
of
are
rolled
up
inside
one
of
these
pouches;
the
ends
of
the
leather
are
folded
in;
the
whole
is
bound
round
with
the
strong
leather
straps;
and,
the
buckles
being
fastened,
the
pouch
is
ready
for
delivery.
But,
first,
let
the
apparatus
itself
be
described.
This
consists
of
two
parts:
an
arm
or
arms
of
stout
iron
attached
to
the
carriage,
which
can
be
extended
outwards
from
the
side,
and
to
the
end
of
which
the
pouch
containing
the
bag
is
suspended
when
ready;
and
a
receiving
net,
also
attached
to
the
side
of
the
carriage,
which
can
likewise
be
extended
outwards
to
catch
the
mails
to
be
taken
up--this
portion
acting
the
part
of
an
aerial
trawl-net
to
capture
the
bags
suspended
from
brackets
on
the
roadside.
The
apparatus
on
the
roadside
is
the
counterpart
of
that
on
the
carriage,
the
suspending
arm
in
each
case
fitting
itself
to
the
nets
on
the
carriage
and
roadside
respectively.
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