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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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There
are
some
persons
who
suffer
from
the
delusion
that
their
landladies
and
the
sorters
in
the
Post-office
habitually
conspire
to
keep
up,
or
rob
them
of,
their
letters--letters
generally
which
they
look
for
to
bring
them
money
or
the
right
to
property.
These
people
are
always
giving
trouble,
and
are
difficult
to
shake
off.
On
one
occasion
a
lady,
who
was
possessed
of
a
set
idea
of
this
kind,
called
at
the
General
Post-office
in
London
to
state
her
grievance,
which
she
did
in
most
fluent
terms.
Her
complaint
was
noted
for
inquiry,
and
then
she
went
away.
An
hour
or
two
after,
she
returned
to
ascertain
whether
she
had
left
a
packet
of
papers
which
she
had
meanwhile
missed;
but
they
could
not
be
found.
This
circumstance,
she
stated,
convinced
her
that
she
had
been
robbed;
and
an
incident
that
happened
when
she
quitted
the
building
in
the
morning
confirmed
her,
she
stated,
in
her
idea.
A
man
came
up
to
her
and
asked
if
he
could
show
her
the
way
to
the
Dead-letter
Office.
"No,
thank
you,"
was
the
reply;
"I
can
find
the
way
myself."
She
said
she
knew
him
to
be
a
magistrate
or
a
judge:
"He
had
a
thick
neck
and
flat
nose,
and
the
bull-dog
type
of
countenance,
and
was
altogether
repulsive-looking."
She
felt
assured
he
was
watching
her,
&c.
An
aged
couple
in
the
south
of
England
moved
about
from
place
to
place
in
order
to
escape
from
persons
who
were
supposed
by
them
to
open
their
letters.
Persecuted,
as
they
imagined,
in
one
town,
they
would
take
lodgings
in
another
town,
and
very
soon
they
would
suspect
the
servants
of
the
house
and
the
officers
of
the
Post-office
of
obtaining
a
knowledge
of
the
nature
of
their
correspondence.
Then
they
would
wait
on
the
postmaster,
and
generally
go
through
their
chronic
grievance.
The
postmaster,
in
turn,
would
assure
them
that
their
letters
were
fairly
dealt
with;
but
this
did
not
satisfy
them,
and
very
soon
they
were
off
to
another
town,
in
the
hope
of
evading
their
tormentors,
but
in
reality
to
go
through
the
same
course
as
before.
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