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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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A
packet
done
up
in
a
piece
of
brown
paper,
unsealed,
but
tied
with
string,
was
found
to
contain
a
small
quantity
of
trimming,
a
collar-box
with
a
few
paper-collars,
and
inside
the
box
were
two
L1
notes
and
10s.
in
silver.
A
halfpenny
wrapper
was
used
to
serve
as
a
covering
for
the
transmission
of
a
letter,
a
bill
of
sale,
and
four
L5
Bank
of
England
notes.
In
a
newspaper
which
reached
the
Dead-letter
Office
were
found
four
sovereigns,
and
in
another
a
gold
locket.
A
packet
carelessly
rolled
up
was
seen
to
contain
a
sovereign,
two
half-sovereigns,
and
a
savings-bank
book.
In
several
instances
coins
have
been
found
imbedded
in
cake
and
pieces
of
toast;
and
on
one
occasion
gold
coins
of
the
value
of
L1,
10s.
were
discovered
in
a
large
seal
at
the
back
of
a
letter,
the
gold
pieces
having
come
to
light
through
the
wax
getting
slightly
chipped.
But
the
most
flattering
act
of
confidence
in
the
probity
of
the
Post-office
fell
to
be
performed
by
a
person
at
Leeds,
who,
desiring
to
send
a
remittance
to
a
friend,
folded
a
five-pound
note
in
two,
wrote
the
address
on
the
back
of
it,
and,
without
cover
or
registration,
consigned
it
to
the
letter-box.
Petty
frauds
are
committed
on
the
Post-office
to
a
large
extent
by
the
senders
of
newspapers,
who
infringe
the
rules
by
enclosing
all
sorts
of
things
between
the
leaves--such
as
cigars
and
tobacco,
collars,
sea-weed,
ferns
and
flowers,
gloves,
handkerchiefs,
music,
patterns,
sermons,
stockings,
postage-stamps,
and
so
on.
People
in
the
United
States
and
Canada
are
much
given
to
these
practices,
as
shown
by
the
fact
that
in
one-half
of
the
year
1874,
more
than
14,000
newspapers
were
detected
with
such
articles
secreted
in
them.
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