IMPERTINENCE BY POST.
Protests at the humiliation o£ having trade advertisements stamped hy the British Post Otficc on our correspondedo may recall the days (says the Manchester Guardian) when postal communication of any hind was considered a little lacking in dignity. Miss Louise Courtney, m. her reminiscences, says that ‘‘when the London two penny post was first established it was not etiquette to make use of it for private letters. I remember my father's annoyance when a stupid footman posted a letter to Sir Robert Peel instead 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19958, 27 November 1926, Page 4
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121IMPERTINENCE BY POST. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19958, 27 November 1926, Page 4
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