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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
285
If
we
turn
to
consider
the
addresses,
how
amusing
we
find
some
in
their
ambiguity;
how
blundering
and
stupid
a
few
more!
Some
say
too
little,
others
too
much;
some
give
the
phonetic
system
with
malice
prepense,
others
because
it
is
nature's
own
rendering
and
they
have
never
known
school!
Sometimes
(and
the
practice
is
growing)
the
envelope
is
covered
with
long
advertisements,
for
the
benefit
and
information
of
the
Post-Office
officials,
we
presume,
in
which
case
it
is
difficult
to
arrive
at
the
proper
address
of
the
letter
at
the
first
or
even
second
glance.
Some
give
the
address
of
the
sender
in
prominent
printed
characters,
and
it
is
surely
not
a
matter
of
wonder
when
the
letter,
as
not
unfrequently,
happens,
finds
its
way
back
to
the
sender.
In
all
cases
of
this
kind,
time
is
of
course
lost
to
the
Post-Office,
and
the
work
of
examination
is
necessarily
deliberate,
hesitating,
and
slow.
At
one
point,
the
quota
of
letters
from
the
sister-isle
is
received,
and
it
is
then
perhaps
that
the
sorter's
patience
is
put
to
the
severest
test.
The
addresses
of
the
letters
of
the
poorer
Irish
are
generally
so
involved--always
being
sent
to
the
care
of
one
or
two
individuals--that
they
usually
present
the
appearance
of
a
little
wilderness
of
words.
As
a
specimen
of
the
kind
of
letter
referred
to,
we
give
our
readers
a
copy
of
one
which
actually
passed
through
the
Post-Office
some
time
ago,
assuring
them
that
though
the
following
is
rather
an
ultra
specimen,
this
kind
of
minute
but
indefinite
address
is
by
no
means
uncommon
among
the
class
referred
to:--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
