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The Royal Mail

by J. Wilson Hyde

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface to Third Edition
  2. 2Preface to Second Edition
  3. 3Introduction
  4. 4Chapter I — Old Roads
  5. 5Chapter II — Postboys
  6. 6Chapter III — Stage and Mail Coaches
  7. 7Chapter IV — Foot-Posts
  8. 8Chapter V — Mail-Packets
  9. 9Chapter VI — Shipwrecked Mails
  10. 10Chapter VII — Amount of Work
  11. 11Chapter VIII — Growth of Certain Post-Offices
  12. 12Chapter IX — Claims for Post-Office Service
  13. 13Chapter X — The Travelling Post-Office
  14. 14Chapter XI — Sorters and Circulation
  15. 15Chapter XII — Pigeon-Post
  16. 16Chapter XIII — Abuse of the Franking Privilege, and Other Petty Frauds
  17. 17Chapter XIV — Strange Addresses
  18. 18Chapter XV — Post-Office Robberies
  19. 19Chapter XVI — Telegraphic Blunders
  20. 20Chapter XVII — How Letters Are Lost
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Odd Complaints
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Curious Letters Addressed to the Post-Office
  23. 23Chapter XX — Singular Coincidences
  24. 24Chapter XXI — Savings-Bank Curiosities
  25. 25Chapter XXII — Replies to Medical Inquiries
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — Various
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — About Postmasters
  28. 28Chapter XXV — Red Tape

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