POST-OFFICE DETECTIVES.
The war placed a big strain upon the staff of detectives employed by the post-office to keep an eye on postal employees for dishonesty. There are many comparative newcomers engaged on the mails, and though the majority are thoroughly honest and painstaking, there are a few black sheep. It is to protect the public from these latter that the postal detectives exist. They rarely fail tu detect an offender, and scores of cas?s of suspects pass through their hands every year. Parcels, of course, offer a great temptation to dishonest employees. At Mount Pleasant, the great London parcel-sorting office, the "Pinkertons"—a nickname derived from the great American detective agency—have a private staircase to a gallery overlooking the sorting-tables. This is apparently intersected with long panels of frosted glass ; but in reality these are peep-holes through which any suspicious action can be quietly observed.
"Pinkertons," too, are often working in some department side by side with other employees, who are unaware of their existence.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2641, 22 September 1919, Page 7
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