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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
210
On
one
occasion
a
cheque
for
L9,
15s.
was
found
loose
in
a
pillar
letter-box
in
Birmingham.
The
owner
was
traced
through
the
bank
upon
which
the
cheque
was
drawn,
but
he
was
unable
to
give
any
explanation
of
the
circumstances
under
which
it
had
passed
from
his
possession.
The
following
are
a
series
of
instances
in
which
letters
have
got
out
of
their
proper
bearings,--chiefly
in
the
hands
of
the
senders
or
the
persons
addressed,
or
through
the
carelessness
of
the
servants
of
those
persons;
and
the
cases
show
how
prone
the
public
are
to
lay
blame
upon
the
Post-office
when
anything
goes
wrong
with
their
letters,
before
making
proper
search
in
their
own
premises.
A
number
of
cases
are
added,
in
which
the
servants
of
the
senders
or
of
the
persons
addressed
have
been
proved
dishonest,
when
the
blame
had
first
been
laid
upon
post-office
servants;
and
one
or
two
cases
are
given
where
the
Department
has
been
held
up
as
the
delinquent,
merely
to
afford
certain
individuals
an
excuse
for
not
paying
money
due
by
them,
or
otherwise
to
shirk
their
obligations.
"A
person
applied
at
the
Leeds
post-office,
and
stated
that
two
letters
(one
of
which
contained
the
half
of
a
bank-note)
which
he
had
himself
posted
at
that
office
had
not
reached
their
destination--mentioning
at
the
same
time
some
circumstances
associated
with
the
alleged
posting
of
the
letters.
After
some
conversation,
he
was
requested
to
produce
the
letter
which
had
informed
him
of
the
non-receipt
of
the
letters
in
question;
but
instead
of
producing
it,
he,
to
his
own
great
astonishment,
took
from
his
pocket
the
very
letters
which
he
believed
he
had
himself
posted."
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