IMPERTINENCE BY POST
Protests at tho humiliation of having trade advertisements stamped by the British Post Office on our correspondence may recall, tho > days (says tho "Mjnchester Guardian") when postal communication of: any' kind' was;'considered a little lacking in dignity. Miss Louise Courtney, in her reminiscences, says that "when the London twopenny post whs first established it was, not etiquette to make use of' it for private Jetters, I remember my faJher's annoyance, when, a stupid .footman iposted a letter to Sir RobertPeelMnstead ■of sending it by a groom. .'lt seems so impertinent,' he said, 'to send-a letter to a man like Sir Robert Peel by post.' Invitations and their answers were always sent by hand."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1926, Page 16
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116IMPERTINENCE BY POST Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 133, 2 December 1926, Page 16
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