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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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CHAPTER
VI.
SHIPWRECKED
MAILS.
Outside
the
Post-office
department
it
is
probably
not
apprehended
to
what
extent
care
is
actually
bestowed
upon
letters
and
packets--when,
in
course
of
transit
through
the
post,
their
covers
are
damaged
or
addresses
mutilated--in
order
to
secure
their
further
safe
transmission;
many
envelopes
and
wrappers
being
of
such
flimsy
material
that,
coming
into
contact
with
hard
bundles
of
letters
in
the
mail-bags,
they
run
great
risk
of
being
thus
injured.
But
the
occasions
on
which
exceptional
pains
are
taken,
and
on
a
large
scale,
to
carry
out
this
work,
are
when
mails
from
abroad
have
been
saved
in
the
case
of
shipwreck,
and
the
contents
are
soaked
with
water.
Then
it
is
that
patient
work
has
to
be
done
to
get
the
letters,
newspapers,
&c.,
into
a
state
for
delivery,
to
preserve
the
addresses,
and
to
get
the
articles
dried.
In
certain
instances
the
roof
of
the
chief
office
in
St
Martin's-le-Grand
has
been
used
as
a
drying-green
for
shipwrecked
newspapers,
there
being
no
sufficient
space
indoors
to
admit
of
their
being
spread
out.
The
amount
of
patching,
separating,
and
deciphering
in
such
circumstances
cannot
well
be
conceived.
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