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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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It
is
not
probable
that
the
petty
fraud
of
again
using
stamps
which
have
already
passed
through
the
post
is
perpetrated
with
any
great
frequency
upon
the
Post-office.
Still,
cases
no
doubt
do
occur,
and
may
at
any
time
lead
to
criminal
proceedings,
like
those
which
took
place
at
Hull
some
years
ago.
A
person
in
that
town
having
posted
a
letter
with
an
old
stamp
affixed,
the
stamper
who
had
to
deface
the
stamp
in
the
usual
way,
detected
the
irregularity,
and
brought
the
matter
under
notice.
Proceedings
were
taken
against
the
offender,
and
the
case
being
established
against
him,
and
the
fact
being
stated
that
this
person
had
previously
been
warned
by
the
Post-office
against
committing
like
frauds,
he
was
mulcted
in
a
fine
of
L5
and
costs,
with
the
alternative
punishment
of
three-months'
imprisonment.
The
accidents
and
misfortunes
which
are
the
lot
of
letters
in
this
country,
seem
also
to
attend
post-letters
in
their
progress
through
the
Post-offices
of
other
countries.
A
curious
case
was
noticed
some
years
ago
in
the
French
capital.
Some
alterations
were
being
carried
out
in
the
General
Post-office
in
Paris,
when
there
was
found,
in
a
panel
situated
near
a
letter-box,
a
letter
which
had
been
posted
just
fifty
years
before.
There
it
had
remained
concealed
half
a
century.
The
letter
was
forwarded
to
the
person
whose
address
it
bore,
and
who,
strange
to
say,
was
still
alive;
but
the
writer,
it
transpired,
had
been
dead
many
years.
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