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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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Again,
through
a
great
want
of
sense,
or
perhaps
a
redundancy
of
stupidity,
letters
are
deposited
occasionally
in
the
most
extraordinary
places,
in
the
idea
that
they
are
being
posted.
A
servant-girl
being
sent
out
to
post
a
letter,
drops
it
into
the
letter-box
of
an
empty
shop,
where
it
is
found
when
an
intending
tenant
goes
to
look
at
the
premises.
In
a
town
in
the
north
of
Scotland
a
person
was
observed
to
deposit
a
letter
in
a
disused
street
hydrant,
and
on
the
cover
of
the
box
being
removed,
three
other
letters
were
found,
the
senders
of
which
had
similarly
mistaken
the
water-pillar
for
a
letter-box.
The
letters
had
been
passed
into
the
box
through
the
space
formerly
occupied
by
the
tap-lever.
A
somewhat
similarly
absurd
thing
happened
some
time
ago
in
Liverpool,
where
two
letters
were
observed
to
have
been
forced
behind
the
plate
indicating
the
hours
of
collection
on
a
pillar
letter-box--the
person
who
had
placed
them
there
no
doubt
thinking
he
was
doing
the
correct
thing.
It
must
be
that
many
individuals
entertain
the
greatest
confidence
in
the
servants
of
the
Post-office,
or
they
would
not
send
money
and
valuables
as
they
do.
They
also,
perhaps,
regard
the
Department
as
a
fit
subject
on
which
to
perpetrate
petty
frauds,
by
sending
things
of
intrinsic
value
enclosed
in
books
and
newspapers.
Instances
of
this
kind
are
frequent.
Within
the
folds
of
a
newspaper
addressed
to
a
person
in
Ireland
were
found
two
sovereigns,
yet
there
was
no
writing
to
show
who
the
sender
was.
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