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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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CHAPTER
XIII.
ABUSE
OF
THE
FRANKING
PRIVILEGE,
AND
OTHER
PETTY
FRAUDS.
Abuse
of
the
Franking
Privilege.
Wherever
the
use
of
anything
of
value
is
given
without
the
check
of
a
money
or
other
equivalent,
the
use
is
sure
to
degenerate
into
abuse;
and
in
the
experience
of
the
Post-office
this
has
been
proved
to
be
the
case,
both
as
regards
letters
and
telegrams.
In
regard
to
the
first,
the
franking
privilege
was
long
found
to
be
a
canker
eating
into
the
vitals
of
the
Revenue;
and
its
abolition
on
the
introduction
of
the
penny
postage
in
1840
came
none
too
soon.
Had
the
privilege
been
longer
continued,
it
is
impossible
to
conceive
to
what
extent
the
abuse
of
it
might
have
grown;
but
what
might
have
occurred
here
has,
in
some
measure,
taken
place
in
the
United
States,
as
is
shown
by
the
following
statement
made
by
the
Postmaster-General
of
that
country,
about
twenty
years
after
the
abolition
of
the
privilege
in
this:--
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Fine marker
White-out
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