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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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But
this
would
be
by
no
means
the
most
important
result.
Such
posts
would
necessitate
more
frequent
deliveries
in
provincial
towns--the
postmen
to
be
paid
accordingly
as
fully,
and
not
as
now,
only
partially,
employed.
On
the
other
hand,
it
is
quite
clear
that
the
Post-Office
net
revenue
is
a
fair
and
honourable
item
on
the
credit
side
of
the
Government
accounts,
with
which
the
public,
except
through
their
representatives
in
Parliament,
have
nothing
whatever
to
do.
The
penny
postage
scheme
was
carried
through
Parliament
in
the
confident
expectation
resolutely
urged
by
the
intrepid
founder
of
that
scheme,
that
all
the
benefits
promised
under
it
would
result
to
the
country,
without
any
great
relinquishment
of
Post-Office
revenue,
and
that
only
for
a
term
of
years.
Gradually,
year
by
year,
with
enormous
gain
to
the
public
convenience
in
innumerable
ways,
the
revenue
derivable
from
this
branch
of
the
service
has
risen
beyond
the
highest
standard
of
the
past.
Any
relinquishment
of
the
profits--which,
by
the
way,
staves
off
other
taxes--depends
on
Parliament,
and
not
on
the
Post-Office.[203]
10.
Perhaps
of
all
the
prevalent
misconceptions
to
which
the
public
have
been,
and
still
are,
liable,
none
is
so
unfounded
as
that
the
servants
of
the
Post-Office
are,
as
a
body,
ill-used
and
ill-paid.
Without
question,
individual
cases
of
hardship
and
inequality
exist;
but
that
there
is
anything
inherently
wrong
in
the
system,
or
that
that
system
is
administered
with
harshness
or
partiality,
or
that
there
is
in
this
Department
more
than
the
usual
modicum
of
cases
in
which
the
legislation
for
the
many
presses
heavily
on
the
few,
no
one
who
will
make
himself
acquainted
with
the
subject
in
all
its
bearings
can
believe
for
a
moment.
Statements
to
a
contrary
effect
have
often
appeared
in
the
public
newspapers;
instead,
however,
of
representing
the
feelings
of
the
officers,
they
have
much
more
frequently
goaded
them
into
discontent,
no
doubt,
at
times,
against
their
better
feeling
and
judgment.
Two
or
three
years
ago,
the
Postmaster-General,
in
referring
to
these
statements,
dwelt
upon
the
weight
of
responsibility
resting
with
that
part
of
the
public
press
who,
unthinkingly,
and
on
an
ex
parte
view
of
their
case,
indulged
the
martial
sentiments
of
the
men
with
encouragement
to
the
utter
abandonment
of
discipline
and
control.
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