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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
368
4.
"Another
misconception,
which
occasionally
causes
trouble
and
disappointment,
consists
in
assuming
that
a
discretionary
power
can
be
intrusted
to
subordinate
officers
to
remit
penalties
or
overcharges
under
special
circumstances.
Cases
will
occur
in
which
strict
observance
of
a
general
rule
may
inflict
more
or
less
injustice
upon
individuals,
and
where
a
dispensing
power
immediately
at
hand
might
furnish
a
remedy.
In
an
establishment
as
large
and
as
widely
spread
as
the
Post-Office,
however,
there
will
always
be
many
subordinate
officers,
some
of
them
carrying
on
their
duties
beyond
the
easy
reach
of
any
supervising
authority,
who
are
not
fit
depositaries
of
such
a
power,
affecting,
as
it
would
to
a
great
degree,
the
public
revenue.
It
therefore
becomes
necessary
to
lay
down
definite
and
precise
rules,
from
which
no
departure
can
be
allowed,
except
under
sanction
of
the
Postmaster-General;
and
in
the
few
instances
in
which
these
rules
press
hardly,
appeal
must
be
made
to
the
General
Post-Office.
It
must
be
added,
that
in
many
instances
even
such
appeal
is
necessarily
fruitless,
the
Postmaster-General
being
bound
to
a
particular
course
by
positive
law."
5.
"In
regard
to
the
expense
of
railway
conveyance,
the
public
naturally
supposes,
that
as
such
conveyance
is
cheapest
for
ordinary
purposes,
and
as
the
charges
made
for
the
carriage
of
mails
are
subject
to
arbitration,
that
it
must
be
cheapest
for
postal
purposes
also;
and,
indeed,
so
cheap,
as
to
warrant
the
free
use
of
the
railways,
either
as
substitutes
for
other
conveyance,
or
for
the
multiplication
of
mails.
The
fact,
however,
is
very
different.
Except
in
certain
instances,
where
companies
have
entered
into
arrangements,
securing
to
the
Post-Office
the
use
of
their
trains
on
moderate,
though
still
highly
remunerative
terms,
railway
conveyance,
with
all
its
acknowledged
advantages,
has
proved
much
more
expensive
than
that
which
it
has
superseded."
We
have
already
spoken
at
length
of
railways
in
relation
to
the
Post-Office,
and
will
not
here
add
any
further
remark.
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