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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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CHAPTER
XVIII.
ODD
COMPLAINTS.
The
Post-office,
in
its
extensive
correspondence
with
the
public,
has
often
great
difficulty
in
satisfying
what
are
deemed
to
be
the
reasonable
claims
and
representations
of
reasonable
people;
but
it
has
also
to
endeavour
to
satisfy
and
persuade
persons
who,
as
shown
by
the
demands
made
by
them,
are
not
altogether
within
the
category
above
mentioned.
What
would
be
thought
of
the
following
appeals
made
to
the
Secretary
on
the
subject
of
the
injury
supposed
to
be
done
by
electricity
thrown
off
from
telegraph
wires?--
"SIR,--I
have
been
rejoicing
in
the
hope
that
when
the
last
telegraph
wire
was
removed
I
should
be
at
peace;
but
alas
for
human
hopes!
Last
Sunday
and
Saturday
nights,
I
suppose
all
the
wires
must
have
been
working
simultaneously,
for
about
2.0
A.M.
I
was
awakened
by
the
most
intense
pains
in
my
eyes,
and
for
the
two
nights
I
do
not
think
I
had
more
than
six
hours
sleep--that
is,
none
after
2.0
in
the
morning.
Since
then
I
have
slept
from
home,
and
must
continue
to
do
so
until
either
the
wires
are
removed
or
I
leave
the
house,
which
I
shall
be
obliged
to
do,
even
though
it
remain
unoccupied.
The
wires
are
carried
in
a
tube
to
a
pole
about
30
yards
from
my
house
on
the
angle,
and
I
imagine
that
when
they
are
all
working,
and
emerge
from
the
tube,
that
the
electrical
matter
thrown
off
must
be
very
great.
Pipes
have
now
been
run
up
----
Road,
where
a
pillar
or
pole
might
very
easily
be
fixed,
and
the
present
one
might
be
removed
100
yards
farther
off,
where
it
would
electrify
nothing
but
fields.--With
many
apologies
for
troubling
you
again,
for,
I
hope,
the
last
time,
and
with
many
thanks
for
your
kindness
hitherto,
I
am,"
&c.
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