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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
299
If
any
registered
letters
are
of
the
number
to
be
sent,
the
name
of
each
addressee
is
carefully
written
on
the
letter-bill.
Private
and
locked
bags
for
the
country
gentry
still
survive,
and
may
be
obtained
for
an
annual
fee
of
two
guineas.
They
are
attended
to
with
some
care,
and
are
carried
to
their
destination
with
the
other
made-up
bags.
When
the
mails
are
ready,
they
are
sent
from
the
Post-Office
in
various
ways.
Those
for
one
or
two
country
roads
are
sent
to
a
local
railway
station,
and
taken
in
charge
by
the
railway
guard,
who
drops
the
bags
at
the
different
points
on
the
line
according
to
their
address;
others
are
carried
by
mail
gigs
under
one
or
more
private
contractors,
while
the
rest
are
taken
by
country-walking
postmen,
who
make
certain
journeys
during
the
day,
returning
in
the
evening
with
the
letters
and
bags
they
have
gathered
during
their
travels.
Of
course
the
rural
messengers
take
out
loose
letters
as
well;
e.
g.
those
for
detached
dwellings
on
their
line
of
road.
Our
letter
falls
into
the
hands
of
one
of
those
hard-working
and
deserving
men.[164]
The
village,
or
rather
hamlet,
to
which
it
is
addressed
is
too
small
for
a
post-office,
but
a
rural
postman
passes
through
it
on
his
daily
journeyings
about
ten
o'clock
each
morning,
delivering
with
scrupulous
fidelity
everything
committed
to
his
care.
Thus,
posted
where
we
saw
it
last
night,
it
passes
from
hand
to
hand
all
through
the
long
night,
and
eventually
reaches
that
hand
for
which
it
was
intended
300
odd
miles
away,
nearly
as
surely
as
if
we
had
travelled
to
deliver
it
ourselves.
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