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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Still
more
important
was
the
division
of
London
into
ten
postal
districts,
carried
out
during
the
year
1856.
The
immense
magnitude
of
the
metropolis
necessitated
this
scheme;
it
having
been
found
impossible
to
overcome
the
obstacles
to
a
more
speedy
transmission
of
letters
within
and
around
London,
or
properly
to
manage
without
some
change,
the
ever
increasing
amount
of
Post-Office
business.
Under
the
new
arrangements,
each
district
was
to
be
treated
in
many
respects
as
a
separate
town,
district
post-offices
to
be
erected
in
each
of
them.
Thus,
instead
of
all
district
post-letters
being
carried
from
the
receiving
houses
to
the
chief
office
at
St.
Martin's-le-Grand,
there
to
be
sorted
and
re-distributed,
the
letters
must
now
be
sent
to
the
principal
office
of
the
district
in
which
they
were
posted;
sorted
there;
and
distributed
from
that
office
according
to
their
address.
The
time
and
trouble
saved
by
this
arrangement
is,
as
was
expected,
enormous.
Under
the
old
system,
a
letter
from
Cavendish
Square
to
Grosvenor
Square
went
to
the
General
Post-Office,
was
sorted,
and
then
sent
back
to
the
latter
place,
travelling
a
distance
of
four
or
five
miles:
whereas,
at
present,
with
hourly
deliveries,
it
is
almost
immediately
sent
from
one
place
to
the
other.[132]
An
important
part
of
the
new
scheme
was,
that
London
should
be
considered
in
the
principal
provincial
post-offices
as
ten
different
towns,
each
with
its
own
centre
of
operations,
and
that
the
letters
should
be
assorted
and
despatched
on
this
principle.
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