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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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We
follow
the
sorter
as
he
makes
his
way
back
into
the
post-office
carriage,
carrying
with
him
the
treasures
we
have
watched
him
pick
up
by
the
wayside.
These
new
arrivals
disposed
of
in
the
orthodox
way,
and
the
process
repeated
two
or
three
times,
there
is
suddenly
a
movement
among
the
officers
as
they
busy
themselves
in
collecting
from
the
different
boxes
all
the
letters
that
have
been
received
from
first
to
last
for
the
bags
about
to
be
despatched
at
the
approaching
town--the
first
junction
station.
The
letters
in
question
are
examined
to
test
the
correctness
of
the
sorting,
then
tied
up
in
bundles
in
a
sharp
and
decisive
way,
then
placed
away
carefully
in
the
several
bags,
which
are
tied,
sealed,
and
ready
for
delivery
just
as
the
train
is
brought
to
a
stand.
Here
they
are
given
out;
fresh
supplies
are
received
from
a
number
of
large
towns
in
the
immediate
district,
and
the
train
is
again
on
its
way.
The
bags
received
are
at
once
opened;
the
same
round
of
sorting,
collecting,
examining,
is
gone
through;
the
same
process
of
despatching
for
the
next
and
all
subsequent
postal
stages
is
repeated,
just
as
we
have
described.
Little
variation
is
noticed,
except
that
at
certain
points
a
much
larger
number
of
bags
are
thrown
into
the
office--for
instance,
as
the
train
nears
the
more
thickly
populated
parts
of
the
midland
counties,
then
the
"black
country,"
as
it
is
called,
and
subsequently
the
manufacturing
districts.
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