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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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"A
letter
containing
two
L5
Bank
of
England
notes
was
stated
to
have
been
posted
at
Leeds,
addressed
to
a
lady
at
Leamington,
without
reaching
its
destination;
but
the
inquiry
that
was
instituted
by
the
Post-office
caused
the
sender
to
withdraw
his
complaint,
and
to
prefer
against
the
clerk
whom
he
had
intrusted
with
the
letter,
a
charge
of
having
purloined
it
before
it
reached
the
Post-office."
"The
secretary
of
a
charitable
institution
in
London
gave
directions
for
posting
a
large
number
of
'election
papers,'
and
supposed
that
these
directions
had
been
duly
acted
upon.
Shortly,
however,
he
received
complaints
of
the
non-receipt
of
many
of
the
papers,
and
in
other
cases
of
delay.
He
at
once
made
a
complaint
at
the
Post-office;
but,
on
examination,
circumstances
soon
came
to
light
which
cast
suspicion
on
the
person
employed
to
post
the
notices,
although
this
man
had
been
many
years
in
the
service
of
the
society,
and
was
supposed
to
be
of
strict
integrity.
Ultimately,
the
man
confessed
that
he
had
embezzled
the
postage,
amounting
to
L3,
15s.
6d.,
and
had
endeavoured
to
deliver
the
election
papers
himself."
"Complaint
having
been
made
by
a
dealer
in
foreign
postage-stamps
that
several
letters
containing
such
stamps
had
not
reached
him,
a
careful
investigation
was
made,
but
for
some
time
without
any
result.
The
letters
should
have
been
dropped
by
the
letter-carrier
into
the
addressee's
letter-box;
but
to
this
box
no
one,
the
dealer
asserted,
had
access
but
himself.
Some
time
afterwards,
however,
a
cover
addressed
to
the
complainant
was
picked
up
in
the
street,
and
on
inquiry
being
made
whether
the
letter
to
which
it
belonged
had
been
delivered,
the
complainant
stated
that
it
had
not.
But
it
so
happened
that
the
letter-carrier
had
a
clear
recollection
of
dropping
this
letter
into
the
letter-box,
and,
moreover,
remembered
to
have
observed
a
young
girl
who
was
at
the
window
move,
as
he
thought,
towards
the
box.
This
led
to
the
girl
being
closely
questioned,
when
she
admitted
the
theft,
confessing
also
that
she
had
committed
other
similar
thefts
previously.
Thus,
by
a
mere
chance,
a
suspicion
which
had
been
cast
on
the
Post-office
was
dispelled."
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