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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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The
bundles
of
letters
are
quickly
taken
to
the
letter-stampers,
through
whose
hands
they
must
first
pass.
With
a
speed
and
accuracy
which
rivals
machinery,[163]
an
agile
letter-stamper
will
soon
impress
a
copy
of
the
dated
stamp
of
the
office
upon
the
back
of
a
hundred
letters,
and
this
done,
they
are
passed
over
to
the
clerks
and
sorters
to
arrange
them
in
the
different
boxes,
the
process
being
repeated
till
the
whole
are
disposed
of.
The
newspapers
and
book-packets
are
taken
from
the
table
without
being
stamped,
and
sorted
by
the
letter-carriers.
As
soon
as
the
first
or
preliminary
sorting
is
over,
each
sorter
will
proceed
upon
distinctive
duties;
some
will
prepare
the
letters
for
the
letter-carriers,
by
sorting
each
man's
letters
together,
according
to
their
different
number.
When
this
is
done,
the
letters
are
handed
to
the
carriers,
who
retire
to
a
separate
room,
looking
with
its
desks
very
like
a
small
schoolroom,
and
there
arrange
them
in
order
to
deliver
them
from
house
to
house.
Other
officers
will
prepare
the
letters
for
the
sub-officers
and
rural
messengers.
When
all
the
letters,
&c.
for
a
certain
village
are
gathered
up,
they
are
counted
and
tied
up
in
bundles;
if
any
charged
letters
are
sent,
the
amount
is
debited
against
the
sub-postmaster
of
the
place
on
a
letter-bill--something
like
an
invoice--which
invariably
accompanies
every
Post-Office
letter-bag
despatched
from
one
post-town
to
another,
or
from
one
head
office
to
a
sub-office.
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