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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
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Post-cards,
nearly
600,000
Book-packets,
"
5,000,000
Newspapers,
"
478,000
As
regards
the
book-packets,
it
is
well
to
know
that
a
large
part
of
the
five
millions
is
represented
by
circulars,
which
are
classed
as
book-packets,
and
the
addresses
on
which
are
not
infrequently
taken
by
advertisers
from
old
directories
or
other
unreliable
sources.
There
is
one
trifling
item
which
it
may
be
well
to
give,
showing
how
the
smallest
things
contribute
to
build
up
the
great,
as
drops
of
water
constitute
the
sea,
and
grains
of
sand
the
earth.
Those
tiny
things
called
postage-stamps,
which
are
light
as
feathers,
and
might
be
blown
about
by
the
slightest
breeze,
make
up
in
the
aggregate
very
considerable
bulk
and
weight,
as
will
be
appreciated
when
it
is
mentioned
that
one
year's
issue
for
the
United
Kingdom
amounts
in
weight
to
no
less
than
one
hundred
and
fourteen
tons.
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