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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Finally,
it
cannot
truly
be
said
that
the
Post-Office
institution
is
not
moving
with
the
age,
but
is
as
it
used
to
be,
intrenched
in
the
traditions
of
the
past.
Different
from
other
departments,
with
their
undeviatingly
narrow
routine,
the
Post-Office
is
managed
with
that
enlightened
policy
which
openly
invites
suggestion
and
criticism;
nay,
it
goes
further,
and
offers
rewards
to
persons,
either
in
its
employ
or
otherwise,
who
may
devise
any
plan
for
accelerating
its
business.
Post-Office
work
is
of
such
a
nature
that
the
Post-Office
establishment
admits
of
constant
improvement
as
well
as
constant
expansion.
The
authorities
publicly
intimate
that
they
will
be
glad
to
receive
clear
and
correct
information
respecting
any
faulty
arrangements,
promising
that
such
information
shall
have
the
best
attention
of
the
practical
officers
of
the
department.
At
the
same
time,
they
take
the
opportunity
to
urge
upon
John
Bull
the
practice
of
patience,
reminding
him
of
what
he
is
often
inclined
to
forget,
that
changes
in
machinery
so
extensive
and
delicate
must
be
made
carefully,
and
only
after
the
most
mature
thought
and
fullest
investigation.
"The
Post-Office,"
says
Mr.
Mathew
D.
Hill,
the
respected
Recorder
of
Birmingham,[205]
"no
longer
assumes
to
be
perfect,
and
its
conductors
have
renounced
their
claims
to
infallibility.
Suggested
improvements,
if
they
can
sustain
the
indispensable
test
of
rigid
scrutiny,
are
welcomed,
and
not,
as
of
old,
frowned
away.
The
Department
acts
under
the
conviction
that
to
thrive
it
must
keep
ahead
of
all
rivals;
that
it
must
discard
the
confidence
heretofore
placed
in
legal
prohibitions,
and
seek
its
continuance
of
prosperity
only
by
deserving
it."
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