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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
157
The
Post-office
has
also
been
exposed
to
frauds
in
other
ways.
Thus
it
was
a
common
device
to
take
a
newspaper
bearing
the
newspaper
frank,
prick
out
with
a
pin
certain
words
in
the
print
making
up
a
message
to
be
sent,
and
the
newspaper
so
prepared
served
all
the
purposes
of
a
letter
as
between
the
sender
and
receiver.
Or
a
message
would
be
written
on
the
cover
of
a
newspaper
with
the
first
of
all
fluids
known
to
us--milk--which,
when
dry,
was
not
observed,
but
developed
a
legible
communication
subsequently
when
held
to
the
fire.
The
following
anecdotes
of
the
evasions
of
postage
are
told
by
the
late
Sir
Rowland
Hill:--
"Some
years
ago,
when
it
was
the
practice
to
write
the
name
of
a
member
of
Parliament
for
the
purpose
of
franking
a
newspaper,
a
friend
of
mine,
previous
to
starting
on
a
tour
into
Scotland,
arranged
with
his
family
a
plan
of
informing
them
of
his
progress
and
state
of
health,
without
putting
them
to
the
expense
of
postage.
It
was
managed
thus:
He
carried
with
him
a
number
of
old
newspapers,
one
of
which
he
put
into
the
post
daily.
The
postmark,
with
the
date,
showed
his
progress;
and
the
state
of
his
health
was
evinced
by
the
selection
of
the
names
from
a
list
previously
agreed
upon,
with
which
the
newspaper
was
franked.
Sir
Francis
Burdett,
I
recollect,
denoted
vigorous
health."
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