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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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Does
it
ever
occur
to
an
ordinary
member
of
the
community
how
letters
are
sorted?
And
if
so,
what
has
the
thinking
member
made
of
it?
We
fear
the
idea
would
wear
a
somewhat
hazy
complexion.
This
is
how
it
is
done
in
Edinburgh,
for
example.
The
letters
when
posted
are
of
course
found
all
mixed
together,
and
bearing
addresses
of
every
kind.
They
are
first
arranged
with
the
postage-stamps
all
in
one
direction,
then
they
are
stamped
(the
labels
being
defaced
in
the
process),
and
thereafter
the
letters
are
ready
to
be
sorted.
They
are
conveyed
to
sorting
frames,
where
a
first
division
is
carried
out,
the
letters
being
divided
into
about
twenty
lots,
representing
roads
or
despatching
divisions,
and
a
few
large
towns.
Then
at
these
divisions
the
final
sortation
takes
place,
to
accord
with
the
bags
in
which
the
letters
will
be
enclosed
when
the
proper
hour
of
despatch
arrives.
This
seems
a
very
simple
process,
does
it
not?
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