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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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A
brown-paper
parcel,
merely
tied
with
string,
unsealed,
and
not
even
registered,
was
found
to
contain
six
sovereigns,
one
half-crown,
two
sixpences,
and
three
halfpenny-pieces,
wrapped
up
in
small
articles
of
ladies'
dress.
In
the
chief
office
in
London,
two
gold
watches
were
found
inside
an
unregistered
book-packet
addressed
to
New
Zealand,
the
middle
portions
of
the
leaves
having
been
cut
out
so
as
to
admit
of
the
watches
being
concealed
within.
On
another
occasion,
but
in
a
Scotch
post-office,
a
packet
containing
a
book
bound
in
morocco,
was
on
examination
discovered
to
have
the
inner
portion
of
the
leaves
hollowed
out,
while
still
retaining
the
appearance
of
an
ordinary
book,
and
inside
this
hollow
were
found
secreted
a
gold
watch
and
a
silver
locket.
At
another
time,
a
L20
Bank
of
England
note
was
observed
pinned
to
one
of
the
pages
of
a
book
addressed
to
the
initials
of
a
lady
at
a
receiving-house
in
the
London
Metropolitan
District.
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