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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
287
After
all,
however,
the
cases
of
blunder
are
exceptional;
and
as
no
really
blind
letters
are
found
in
the
travelling
offices,
because
no
letters
are
posted
here,
little
difficulty
is
felt,
comparatively
speaking,
and
nothing
but
patience
and
the
Rosetta
stone
of
experience
are
needed
for
the
performance
of
the
duty.
The
great
majority
of
letters
are
like
the
great
majority
of
people--ordinary,
unexceptionable,
and
mediocre.
It
could
not
well
be
otherwise.
In
the
railway
post-office,
however,
much
is
learned
from
the
habit
of
association.
The
officers,
of
course,
take
some
degree
of
interest
in
the
towns
on
his
ride;
for,
almost
domesticated
on
the
rail,
he
becomes
a
sort
of
denizen
of
those
towns
he
is
constantly
passing,
and
sees,
or
fancies
he
does,
from
the
letters
that
arrive
from
them,
a
kind
of
corroboration
of
all
he
has
settled
in
his
mind
with
regard
to
them.
Almost
every
town
has
its
distinctive
kind
of
letters.
That
town
we
just
passed
is
manufacturing,
and
the
letters
are
almost
entirely
confined
to
sober-looking
advice-cards,
circulars,
prices
current,
and
invoices,
generally
very
similar
in
kind
and
appearance,
in
good-sized
envelopes,
with
very
plainly
written
or
printed
addresses.
Now
and
then
a
lawyer's
letter,
written
in
a
painfully
distinct
hand,
or
a
thick,
fat,
banker's
letter,
groaning
under
the
weight
of
bills
and
notes,
escapes
from
company
such
as
we
have
described;
but
still
the
letters
sustain
the
town's
real
character.
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