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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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2.
The
knowledge
of
the
following
misconception
may
also
help
to
save
the
public
and
the
Post-Office
a
great
amount
of
trouble.
"It
is
often
assumed,"
says
the
Postmaster-General,
"that
a
mail-conveyance
passing
by,
or
through
a
place,
ought,
as
a
matter
of
course,
to
deposit,"
there
and
then,
"the
letters
directed
thereto;
the
practice
being,
on
the
contrary,
that
until
the
mail
arrives
at
the
head
post-office
of
the
district,
the
letters
in
question
are
not
separated
from
the
other
letters
of
the
district.
A
slight
consideration
of
the
nature
and
objects
of
the
postal
service
will
show
that
such
separation
cannot
be
effected
in
any
other
way,
unless,
indeed,
the
mail-conveyance,
even
supposing
it
to
be
but
a
mail-cart,
were
converted
into
a
travelling
post-office,
and
furnished
with
clerks
of
unlimited
local
knowledge
(which
is
plainly
impossible),
or
unless
every
town
and
village
in
the
kingdom,
having
any
correspondence
with
the
place
in
question,
were
to
make
up
a
bag
for
that
place;
in
which
case
its
mail
would
contain
nearly
as
many
bags
as
letters."
3.
"It
happens
from
time
to
time
that,
owing
to
the
stream
of
postal
communications
having
been
diverted
from
the
old
mail-road
to
a
line
of
railway,
or
from
other
causes
of
like
nature,
it
becomes
desirable
to
reduce
the
post-office
of
a
town
from
the
condition
of
a
principal
office
to
that
of
a
sub-office.
This
step
not
unfrequently
gives
rise
to
complaints,
the
inhabitants
being
under
the
impression
that
they
will
not
in
future
be
so
well
served.
This
is
a
misconception.
The
change
is
not
made
when
it
will
subject
the
correspondence
to
delay;
nor
does
it
cause
any
withdrawal
of
accommodation
in
respect
to
money-orders.
It
is,
in
fact,
only
a
departmental
arrangement,
which
consists
in
carrying
on
the
sorting
of
the
letters
for
the
new
sub-office
at
some
intermediate
office,
instead
of
sending
the
letters
in
direct
bags."
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