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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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A
similar
instance
of
ignorance
of
the
method
of
business
as
carried
on
by
the
Post-office
was
exhibited
by
a
poor
Irishman
in
London,
and
is
thus
described
in
the
'Life
of
Sir
Rowland
Hill':--
"The
belief
has
more
than
once
been
manifested
at
a
money-order-office
window
that
the
mere
payment
of
the
commission
would
be
sufficient
to
procure
an
order
for
L5,--the
form
of
paying
in
the
L5
being
deemed
purely
optional.
An
Irish
gentleman
(who
had
left
his
hod
at
the
door)
recently
applied
in
Aldersgate
Street
for
an
order
for
L5
on
a
Tipperary
post-office,
for
which
he
tendered
(probably
congratulating
himself
on
having
hit
upon
so
good
an
investment)
sixpence.
It
required
a
lengthened
argument
to
prove
to
him
that
he
would
have
to
pay
the
L5
into
the
office
before
his
friend
could
receive
that
small
amount
in
Tipperary;
and
he
went
away,
after
all,
evidently
convinced
that
his
not
having
this
order
was
one
of
the
personal
wrongs
of
Ireland,
and
one
of
the
particular
injustices
done
to
hereditary
bondsmen
only."
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