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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Of
course,
this
Post-Office
machinery,
which
we
have
attempted
to
describe,
is
necessarily
delicate
and
liable
to
derangements,
inasmuch
as
it
has
to
depend
to
a
great
extent
on
the
proper
carrying
out
throughout
the
country
of
an
infinite
number
of
railway
arrangements.
Its
successful
working
is
doubtless
primarily
due
to
the
special
time
chosen
for
the
conveyance
of
mails.
The
ordinary
traffic
disposed
of,
the
mail-trains
take
its
place,
and
through
the
long
night
the
best
part
of
the
Post-Office
work
is
accomplished.
The
good
or
bad
management
of
railway
companies
may
assist
or
retard
the
efficiency
of
the
Post-Office
to
an
almost
incalculable
extent.
The
railway
post-office
is
like
a
gigantic
machine,
one
part
interdependent
on
another,
and
all
alike
dependent
on
the
motive
power
of
the
different
contracting
parties.
Railway
accidents
are
fruitful
sources
of
discomfiture
to
the
Post-Office
Department.
The
mail-trains
have,
within
the
last
two
or
three
years,
enjoyed
an
immunity
from
any
very
serious
calamity
of
this
nature:
yet
even
when
this
is
not
the
case,
it
very
seldom
happens
that
the
Post-Office
arrangements
suffer,
except
on
the
particular
journey
wherein
the
accident
occurred.
Fresh
supplies
of
men
and
matériel
are
summoned
with
a
speed
that
would,
or
ought
to,
surprise
some
other
commissariat
departments,
and
the
work
proceeds
the
next
day
or
night
as
if
the
equilibrium
had
never
been
disturbed.
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