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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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Down
to
this
period
the
mails
from
London
to
Scotland
were
carried
on
horseback
with
something
like
tolerable
speed,
taking
previous
performances
into
account,
for
in
1689
it
is
noted
that
parliamentary
proceedings
of
Saturday
were
in
the
hands
of
the
Edinburgh
public
on
the
ensuing
Thursday.
This
rate
of
travelling
does
not
appear
to
have
been
kept
up,
for
in
1715
the
post
from
London
to
Edinburgh
took
six
days
to
perform
the
journey.
When
it
is
considered
that
nearly
a
century
before,
the
same
distance
could
be
covered
in
three
days,
this
relapse
seems
to
bespeak
a
sad
want
of
vitality
in
the
Post-office
management
of
the
age.
The
cause
of
the
slow
travelling,
which
appears
to
have
continued
for
over
forty
years,
comes
out
in
a
memorial
of
traders
to
the
Convention
of
Burghs
in
1758,
wherein
dissatisfaction
was
expressed
with
the
existing
arrangements
of
the
post,--the
mail
for
London
on
reaching
Newcastle
being
there
delayed
about
a
day,
again
detained
some
time
at
York,
and
probably
further
delayed
in
the
south;
so
that
the
double
journey
to
and
from
London
occupied
eleven
days
instead
of
seven
or
eight,
as
the
memorial
deemed
sufficient.
To
the
Post-office
mind
of
the
present
age,
this
dilatory
method
of
performing
the
service
of
forwarding
mails
is
incomprehensible,
and
the
circumstance
reflects
discreditably
both
on
the
Post-office
officials
who
were
cognisant
of
it,
and
on
the
public
who
submitted
to
it.
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