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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
364
1.
Unquestionably,
the
Post-Office
is
blamed
for
many
errors
and
shortcomings
which
ought
never
to
have
been
charged
against
it.
On
this
important
point,
the
evidence
given
by
each
Post-Office
Report
is
remarkably
clear,
although,
by
the
way,
a
writer
in
a
recent
number
of
a
highly
respectable
quarterly
review
regards
the
instances
given
by
successive
Postmaster-Generals
as
so
many
"testimonials
to
character,"
reminding
him--so
he
scurvily
added--of
nothing
so
much
as
"the
testimonials
given
by
dyspeptic
noblemen
in
favour
of
the
Revalenta
Arabica
or
Holloway's
Pills
and
Ointment."[196]
Of
course,
much
trouble
and
many
losses
must,
from
time
to
time
and
at
all
times,
have
been
caused
by
the
carelessness
or
dishonesty
of
some
of
many
thousand
officials
of
the
Post-Office,
though
the
cases
are
far
from
few,
and
the
authorities,
in
which
it
has
been
shown,
to
the
satisfaction
even
of
the
complainant,
that
the
fault
at
first
attributed
to
the
Post-Office
rested
really
in
other
quarters.
Some
examples
are
afforded.
The
publisher
of
one
of
the
London
papers
complained
of
the
repeated
loss
in
the
Post-Office
of
copies
of
his
journal,
addressed
to
persons
abroad.
An
investigation
showed
that
the
abstraction
was
made
by
the
publisher's
clerk,
his
object
apparently
being
to
appropriate
the
stamps
required
to
defray
the
foreign
postage.
In
another
case,
a
general
complaint
having
arisen
as
to
the
loss
of
newspapers
sent
to
the
chief
office
in
St.
Martin's-le-Grand,
the
investigation
led
to
the
discovery
of
a
regular
mart
held
near
the
office,
which
was
supplied
with
newspapers
by
the
private
messengers
employed
to
convey
them
to
the
post.
Again:
A
man
was
detected
once
in
robbing
a
newsvendor's
cart
by
volunteering,
on
its
arrival
at
the
entrance
of
the
General
Post-Office,
to
assist
the
driver
in
posting
the
newspapers.
Instead
of
doing
so,
however,
he
walked
through
the
hall
with
those
intrusted
to
him,
and,
upon
his
being
stopped,
three
quires
of
a
weekly
paper
were
found
in
his
possession.
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