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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
267
If
a
letter
should
be
found
to
contain
anything
of
value,
such
as
bank-notes,
drafts,
postage-stamps,
the
precaution
is
taken
of
having
a
special
record
taken
of
it,
and
it
is
then
sent
back
as
a
registered
dead
letter.
Money
to
the
value
of
12,000l.
or
14,000l.
is
annually
found
in
these
returned
letters.
Of
this
sum
about
500l.
per
annum
falls
into
the
public
exchequer,
on
account
of
no
address
being
found
inside,
and
no
inquiry
being
made
for
the
missing
letters.
A
vast
number
of
bank
post-bills
and
bills
of
exchange
are
likewise
found,
amounting
in
all,
and
on
the
average,
to
something
like
3,000,000l.
a-year.
These
bills,
however,
as
well
as
money-order
advices,
always
afford
some
clue
to
the
senders,
even
supposing
no
address
should
be
given
inside
the
letter,
and
inquiries
are
set
on
foot
at
the
bankers
and
others
whose
names
may
be
given
in
the
paper
transactions.
Forty
thousand
letters
reach
the
English
returned
branch
each
year
containing
property
of
different
kinds.
Many
presents,
such
as
rings,
pins,
brooches,
never
reach
their
destination,
and
are
never
sent
back
to
the
sender,
because
they
are
often
unaccompanied
with
any
letter.
These
articles,
of
course,
become
the
property
of
the
Crown.
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