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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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A
registered
letter
posted
at
Newcastle,
and
addressed
to
a
banker
in
Edinburgh,
not
having
reached
the
addressee's
hands,
a
telegram
was
forwarded
to
the
sender
intimating
the
fact,
and
requesting
explanation
of
the
failure.
The
banker
supposed
that
the
letter
had
been
lost
or
purloined
in
the
Post-office;
but
it
was
afterwards
proved
to
have
been
duly
delivered
to
the
bank
porter,
who
having
locked
it
up
in
his
desk,
had
quite
forgotten
it.
A
lady
residing
in
Jersey
applied
to
the
Post-office
respecting
a
letter
which
had
been
sent
by
her
to
a
clergyman
at
Oxford.
Inquiry
was
made
for
it
at
all
the
offices
through
which
it
would
pass,
but
unsuccessfully,
no
trace
whatever
of
it
being
found.
Subsequently
the
clergyman
informed
the
secretary
of
the
Post-office
that
he
had
found
the
letter
between
the
cushions
of
his
own
arm-chair,
where
it
had
been
placed,
no
doubt,
at
the
time
of
delivery.
"A
person
complained
of
delay
in
the
receipt
of
a
letter
which
appeared
to
have
passed
through
the
Post-office
twice.
It
transpired
that
the
letter
had,
in
the
first
instance,
been
duly
delivered
at
a
shop,
where
it
was
to
remain
till
called
for,
but
that
it
had
accidentally
been
taken
away
with
some
music
by
a
customer,
who
had
afterwards
dropped
it
in
the
street.
Subsequently
the
letter
must
have
been
picked
up
and
again
posted,
and
hence
its
double
passage
through
the
Post-office."
"A
barrister
complained
of
the
non-delivery
of
a
letter
containing
the
halves
of
two
L10
Bank
of
England
notes,
stating
that
he
had
posted
the
letter
himself;
but
he
shortly
afterwards
wrote
to
say
that
the
letter
had
reached
its
destination.
It
appeared
that,
instead
of
putting
it
into
the
letter-box,
he
had
dropped
the
letter
in
the
street,
where,
fortunately,
it
was
picked
up
by
some
honest
person,
who
posted
it."
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