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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[206]
The
average
weight
of
inland
letters
is
now
about
a
quarter
of
an
ounce;
that
of
colonial
letters
about
a
third
of
an
ounce;
of
a
foreign
letter
also
about
a
quarter
of
an
ounce.
The
average
weight
of
newspapers
is
about
three
ounces,
and
of
book-packets
ten
ounces.
[207]
With
charges
extremely
low,
the
Post-Office
is
victimized
by
all
kinds
of
craftiness.
The
dodging
of
the
proper
payment
is
sometimes
quite
ludicrous.
Hundreds
of
newspapers,
for
instance,
are
annually
caught
(and
we
may
reasonably
assume
that
thousands
more
escape)
with
short
loving
messages
deftly
inscribed
between
their
paragraphs
of
type,
or
letters,
different
descriptions
of
light
articles,
and
even
money
curiously
imbedded
in
their
folds.
Almost
everybody
might
tell
of
some
adventure
of
this
kind
in
his
experience
not
only
before
penny-postage,
but
even
after
it.
[208]
Moneys
accruing
to
the
revenue
from
lapsed
orders
are
allowed
to
go
into
a
fund
for
assisting
officers
of
the
Post-Office
to
pay
their
premiums
on
life
assurance
policies.
No
officer,
however,
can
be
assisted
to
pay
for
a
policy
exceeding
300l.
[209]
This
prohibition
does
not
extend
to
Christmas
gratuities.
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