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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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As
another
example,
take
the
United
States,
with
Mr.
Anthony
Trollope
for
a
judge
on
postal
concerns.
In
his
North
America,
vol.
ii.
p.
368,
we
read:
"It
is,
I
think,
undoubtedly
true
that
the
amount
of
accommodation
given
by
the
Post-Office
of
the
States
is
small,
as
compared
with
that
afforded
in
some
other
countries,
and
that
that
accommodation
is
lessened
by
delays
and
uncertainty....
Here
in
England,
it
is
the
object
of
our
Post-Office
to
carry
the
bulk
of
our
letters
at
night,
to
deliver
them
as
early
as
possible
in
the
morning,
and
to
collect
them
and
take
them
away
for
despatch
as
late
as
may
be
in
the
day;
so
that
the
merchant
may
receive
his
letters
before
the
beginning
of
his
day's
business,
and
despatch
them
after
its
close.
In
the
States
no
such
practice
prevails.
Letters
arrive
at
any
hour
of
the
day
miscellaneously,
and
were
despatched
at
any
hour.
I
found
that
the
postmaster
of
one
town
could
never
tell
me
with
certainty
when
letters
would
arrive
at
another.
I
ascertained,
moreover,
by
painful
experience
that
the
whole
of
a
mail
would
not
always
go
forward
by
the
first
despatch.
As
regarded
myself,
this
had
reference
chiefly
to
English
letters
and
newspapers.
'Only
a
part
of
the
mail
has
come,'
the
clerk
would
tell
me.
With
us
the
owners
of
that
part
which
did
not
come
would
consider
themselves
greatly
aggrieved
and
make
loud
complaint.
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