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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[184]
The
irregularities
and
eccentricities
in
the
numbering
of
streets
and
houses
is
a
great
difficulty.
On
one
occasion
a
London
inspector
of
letter-carriers,
going
round
the
districts,
noticed
a
brass-plate
with
the
number
95
between
two
houses
numbered
respectively
15
and
16.
He
made
inquiry,
when
the
old
lady
who
tenanted
the
house
said
that
the
number
had
belonged
to
a
former
residence,
and,
thinking
it
a
pity
that
it
should
be
thrown
away,
she
had
transferred
it
to
her
new
home,
supposing
that
it
would
do
as
well
as
any
other
number!
[185]
About
two
hundred
letters
pass
through
the
General
Post-Office
every
day
unsealed.
[186]
It
is
calculated
that
91
per
cent.
of
the
letters
circulating
through
the
United
Kingdom
are
enclosed
in
envelopes;
the
number
of
those
sent
abroad
in
envelopes
is
somewhat
smaller,
or
about
65
per
cent.
[187]
The
number
of
newspapers
delivered
in
1862
amounted
to
nearly
73,000,000,
a
considerable
increase
on
the
previous
year.
The
number
of
book-packets
exceeded
14,000,000,
being
an
increase
on
the
previous
year
of
about
1,700,000,
or
nearly
14
per
cent.
Upwards
of
400,000
newspapers,
or
about
one
in
two
hundred,
were
undelivered
in
the
same
year,
about
half
of
which
failures
arose
from
improper
or
incorrect
addresses,
while
the
remainder
were
owing
to
the
newspapers
becoming
detached
from
their
covers
in
transit
through
the
post.
[188]
It
is
calculated
that
every
year
nearly
fifty
thousand
postage-stamps
rub
off
letters
and
newspapers
in
their
passage
through
the
Post-Office.
At
one
time
the
quality
of
the
adhesive
matter
was
called
in
question,
loud
complaint,
even
ridicule,
settling
on
the
theme.
Now,
however,
that
the
gum
is
better
the
number
of
stamps
which
"will
not
stick"
is
scarcely
perceptibly
smaller.
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