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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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[148]
Postmaster
General's
Second
Report.
[149]
See
Appendix
(A).
[150]
Head-office
is
the
official
term
given
to
the
independent
post-towns,
and
such
as
are
only
subordinate
to
one
of
the
three
metropolitan
offices.
Sub-offices
are,
of
course,
under
the
head-offices.
Receiving-offices,
at
which
letters
are
received,
but
not
delivered,
are
also
under
the
authority
of
the
head-office
of
the
neighbourhood.
Those
post-offices
at
which
money-orders
are
issued
and
paid
are
designated
Money-order
Offices,
and
include
all
the
head-offices
and
a
large
number
of
sub-offices,
and
a
few
receiving-offices.
Packet-Offices
are
those
at
which
the
regular
mail-packets
(ship-letters
may
be
received
or
despatched.
at
any
port)
are
received
and
from
which
they
are
despatched.
London
and
Southampton
are
packet-offices
for
the
Continental
Mails,
the
East
and
West
Indies,
and
South
America.
Liverpool,
and
Queenstown
take
the
United
States
and
Canada.
The
mail-packets
for
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
and
the
West
Coast
of
Africa
sail
to
and
from
Devonport.
[151]
For
further
information
respecting
these
offices,
see
Appendix
(D),
Revenue
Estimates;
also,
for
a
statement
of
the
amount
of
postage
collected
in
our
largest
towns,
see
Appendix
(E).
[152]
The
staff
of
the
largest
provincial
offices
usually
consists
of
clerks,
sorters,
stampers,
messengers,
letter-carriers,
and
rural
post-messengers.
The
clerks
are
now
principally
engaged
on
clerical
duties,
attending
to
the
public
on
money-order
business,
&c.
or
in
connexion
with
registered
letters
or
unpaid-letter
accounts.
In
offices
where
the
staff
is
smaller,
the
clerks
also
engage
in
sorting
and
despatching
letters.
In
many
small
country
towns
females
are
employed
as
clerks.
The
sorters
are
principally
engaged
in
sorting
duties.
Stampers
and
messengers
do
duties
such
as
their
designations
denote.
Letter-carriers--the
familiar
"postmen"
of
every
household--are
almost
exclusively
engaged
in
delivering
letters,
&c.
from
door
to
door.
Auxiliary
letter-carriers
are
those
only
partially
so
employed,
principally
on
the
largest,
or
early
morning
delivery.
Rural
post-messengers
is
the
official
name
for
"country
postmen,"
who
make
daily
journeys
among
the
villages
and
hamlets
surrounding
each
town,
delivering
and
taking
up
letters
on
their
way.
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