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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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Now
it
is
proper
here
to
observe,
that
between
business
or
trade
in
the
ordinary
sense,
and
the
administration
of
a
department
like
the
Post-office,
there
exists
a
gulf
which
forbids
all
comparison,
and
establishes
a
contrast
of
the
most
striking
kind.
A
stranger,
were
he
taken
through
the
Secretariat
of
the
Post-office
at
St
Martin's-le-Grand,
the
brain
of
the
whole
Department,
could
not
fail
to
be
struck
by
the
method
which
reigns
throughout,
and
the
way
in
which
various
subjects
coming
up
for
consideration
are
disposed
of
in
different
branches.
In
one
quarter
he
would
find
inquiry
going
on
into
the
characters
and
antecedents
of
candidates
for
appointments
throughout
the
country,
and
preparations
being
made
for
their
examination
by
the
Civil
Service
Commissioners.
In
another
room
would
be
found
officers
exercising
judicial
functions
in
regard
to
cases
of
misbehaviour
reported
from
the
country--
meting
out
arrest
of
pay
or
dismissal
in
accordance
with
the
gravity
of
the
offence
in
each
instance.
Then
in
other
rooms
questions
as
to
new
buildings,
their
fittings
and
furniture,
and
the
increase
of
staff
when
demanded
by
provincial
offices,
are
undergoing
close
examination.
Inquiries
for
missing
letters
take
up
attention
in
one
branch;
various
other
kinds
of
irregularities
are
dealt
with
in
another.
The
foreign
mails
branch,
the
home
mails
and
parcel-post
branch,
the
telegraph
branch,
with
all
their
subdivisions
of
work,
occupy
separate
rooms,
and
claim
the
attention
of
officers
specially
trained
to
their
several
duties.
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