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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - - -Title: A Letter on the late Post Office Agitation - - -Author: Charles John Vaughan - - - -Release Date: November 13, 2020 [eBook #63740] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - - -***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LETTER ON THE LATE POST OFFICE -AGITATION*** - - -Transcribed from the 1849 John Murray edition by David Price, email -ccx074@pglaf.org - - - - - - A - LETTER - ON THE LATE - POST OFFICE AGITATION. - - - * * * * * - - BY - - CHARLES JOHN VAUGHAN, D.D. - - HEAD MASTER OF HARROW SCHOOL, AND LATE FELLOW OF - TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. - - * * * * * - - LONDON: - JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET: - CROSSLEY, HARROW. - - MDCCCXLIX. - - * * * * * - - LONDON: PRINTED BY W. NICOL, SHAKSPEARE PRESS, PALL MALL. - - * * * * * - - - - -A LETTER, &c. - - -MY DEAR SIR, - -We have been lately invited to sign a parochial remonstrance against some -projected changes in the business of the London Post Office. I, for one, -declined the invitation. I never thought of obtruding upon others my -_reasons_ for this refusal. I am not the Minister of the Parish; nor -have my opinions, therefore, on such a subject, any particular claim on -the attention of my neighbours. - -You know the circumstance which now compels me to explain myself. I -regret the necessity. But neither I, nor those who have agreed with me -on this occasion, can listen in silence to the imputation of being -indifferent to the national observance of the Sunday. If I can show you -that we are not justly liable to this suspicion, it is well worth while -to do so. If I fail to convince you, I shall at least have entered a -serious protest, for myself and them, against such an imputation. - -I have thoroughly examined the original minute (submitted by Mr. Rowland -Hill to the Post Master General in February last) which formed the basis -of the late alteration in the Sunday duties of the Post Office. I could -wish that that minute had been more generally studied by those who have -pronounced a judgment upon the question. It is open to your inspection: -you may form, therefore, your own opinion upon the justice of the -following observations. - -The measure now impugned (the transmission, namely, of certain provincial -and foreign letters through London on the Sunday) is not an isolated one. -It is but one part of a more general scheme. And what is the object of -that scheme, as described in the minute referred to? {5} _The reduction -of the Sunday duties of the Post Office_. _The securing of the utmost -possible amount of Sunday rest to all connected with the Post Office_. -What, again, was the first part of the same measure? What was that -earlier step, taken by the same persons in the same direction, of which -the present change is a consequence? _The total suspension of all -money-order business on Sunday throughout England and Wales_. And what -are some of those ulterior measures, to which the attention of the -originators of this is next to be directed? _The deferring of work now -done on the Sunday till after midnight_. {6a} _The reduction of Sunday -work_, _even at the chief Office_, _considerably below its present -amount_. {6b} _Important measures of relief to the rural messengers and -rural receivers on the Sunday_. {6c} What, finally, is the declared -object of the _present_ alteration? _Further relief from Sunday labour -in the provincial Post Offices_; _and thus_, _the diminution of Sunday -work in the department as a whole_. So far from its being correct to -state this as a merely accidental result of the measure, it is its very -object and purpose, to which all else is subordinate and subsidiary. - -Ought not these considerations to preclude at least a precipitate -sentence of condemnation? May we not be permitted to learn the object of -a measure from its author? Are we justified in imputing to any man, I do -not say, motives which he disavows, but motives of which he professes the -very opposite, and against which his own previous and subsequent acts -obviously militate? - -But the change, however well meant, may be practically injurious. It may -cause more harm than it obviates. It may introduce more Sunday labour -than it supersedes. This is, of course, conceivable. It is just -possible, doubtless, that an able and experienced officer of this -department of the Government may be found, on this one occasion, so -unskilful or so short-sighted, as to have effected, not _less_ than he -proposed, but the very _opposite_ of that which he designed. But is it -so? - -It is admitted that, at first sight, the alteration in question may seem -to _increase_ the Sunday duties of the Post Office. In London, to a -certain extent, it does. It will require, at the outset, the additional -attendance of twenty-five persons (hereafter, possibly, of a somewhat -larger number) on Sunday in the London Post Office. {7} That attendance, -you will observe is _voluntary_. Nor is it allowed, in any case, to -infringe upon the hours of divine service. It is proposed that the whole -interval from ten in the morning till five in the afternoon be left -perfectly free. {8a} Nor yet would it be correct to represent the -alteration as involving any change of _principle_. The attendance and -employment of _certain_ persons, the reception and assortment of -_certain_ letters, on the Sunday, even in the London Post Office, is no -new thing. {8b} The conscience of the Christian community has left -_these_ practices unchallenged and unnoticed until now. Such -considerations ought to have some weight in our estimate of the present -innovation. Still, so far as it goes, and taken alone, the augmentation -of the Sunday force in the London Post Office is admitted to be an evil. -Is it counterbalanced by any greater good? - -It is necessary to take a _national_ view of such a question. The Post -Office system throughout England is one, not many. The London Office, -and the provincial Offices, are but several parts of one connected whole. -The question, therefore, is, not whether this Office, or that Office, -separately regarded, will be a gainer or a loser by the change; but -whether, on the whole, the _aggregate_ of gain or of loss will -preponderate; whether, so to say, the Post Office of _England_, as -distinguished from that of London separately, or that of York or of -Manchester separately, will thus be relieved on the Sunday, or burdened. -If twenty-five _additional_ servants are required in the _London_ Office -on the Sunday, and _twice_ twenty-five can be _relieved_ on that day in -the _provincial_ Offices; the change, so far as it extends, is salutary. -Now, if this obvious principle be granted, the question is decided at -once. Beyond all contradiction, the present measure is one of relief -from Sunday labour to the department _as a whole_. But the opponents of -the measure argue thus: Taking the London Office by itself, an _addition_ -is proposed to the labours of the Sunday: this is a sinful project: and -if it be urged, on the other side, that a tenfold _relief_ will thus be -afforded to the _provincial_ Offices, they answer, that this is but -_doing evil that good may come_. Yet is not this argument capable of an -easy inversion? Are you not, in _resisting_ the proposed relief of the -country Offices, on the plea of regard for that of London, doing, in -fact, a great evil—not that a small good may come, but that a small evil -may not come? - -What, then, are some of the advantages (speaking merely with reference to -the observance of the Sunday) by which this admitted evil is -counterbalanced? I will enumerate three only. - -1. The cessation of several Sunday cross-posts, by which the detention -of letters in London throughout that day has been hitherto evaded or -obviated: {10} and this, without any addition to the existing number of -mail-trains, or other means of transmission, to or from London, on the -Sunday. {11a} - -2. A great diminution of the former amount of letters written and read -in the country on that day. {11b} - -3. The entire discontinuance of a second delivery of letters on Sunday -throughout England and Wales: {12} a measure affecting considerably more -than two hundred Towns, and affording direct and immediate relief to a -very far larger number of persons. - -Nor is it, perhaps, altogether presumptuous to express a hope that the -unrestricted _transmission_ of letters on the Sunday may eventually be -followed by an equally general _suspension_ of their _delivery_; by which -London and the country would be placed, in this respect, on a footing of -perfect equality; the due observance of the Sunday being alike in both -secured, with no injurious consequences, in either, to the business of -the following day. - -Meanwhile, it is ascertained that, by the alterations already effected, a -very large body (amounting to some hundreds at least) of persons now -occupied on the Sunday in the provincial Offices, even during the hours -of public worship, will be enabled to obtain rest on that day, and to -enjoy without interruption the benefit of its religious services. {13} -The number of principal Post Offices thus benefited, in a greater or less -degree,—some to the extent of _seven hours_ of additional suspension of -business on every Sunday,—amounts very nearly to _five hundred_. A very -far larger number, at present imperfectly ascertained, of Sub-offices -throughout the country, will partake of the same advantage. The total -number of _persons_ thus relieved will obviously far exceed that of the -aggregate of _Offices_. And who will say that these great benefits, _the -direct and principal __object_ (be it remembered) _of the whole measure_, -are utterly vitiated by their unavoidable accompaniment—the employment, -namely, of a small _additional_ force in _one_, the Metropolitan Office, -on the same day? - -What, then, remains, to justify the agitation occasioned by this measure, -but a vague and indefinite suspicion that a change in one direction may -lead to a change in the other? that a measure which proposes neither to -bring in nor take out a single London letter on the Sunday, {14} may -eventually cause, in London itself, both a Sunday collection and a Sunday -delivery? that he who now seeks to lighten Sunday labour, to diminish -Sunday deliveries, Sunday letter-writing and letter-reading, may -hereafter lend his aid to their augmentation and diffusion? Let these -evils be met, on their proper ground, and at the proper time. Let the -good sense and the religious feeling of the country be appealed to when -the danger really threatens. At present, it is as remote as ever. It -will not be brought one step nearer by _this_ measure. But it _may_ be -increased by a premature and unreasonable outcry, to be succeeded, as -usual, by a very natural recoil. - - I remain, my dear Sir, - - Yours very truly, - - C. J. VAUGHAN. - -HARROW, - _November_ 16, 1849 - - - - -_By the Same Author_. - - -SERMONS, chiefly Parochial. 8vo. 1845. - -SERMONS, preached in the Chapel of Harrow School. 8vo. 1847. - -NINE SERMONS, preached for the most part in the Chapel of Harrow School. -12mo. 1849. - - * * * * * - -AN EARNEST APPEAL to the Master and Seniors of Trinity College, -Cambridge, on the Revision of the Statutes. By TWO OF THE FELLOWS, 8vo. -1840. - - - - -FOOTNOTES. - - -{5} See Minute, 1, 2, 3. “I beg to submit my views as to further -measures for reducing the Sunday duties of the Post Office. The -importance of affording to all connected with the Post Office the utmost -amount of rest on the Sunday that is consistent with a due regard to -public convenience, having led to measures for the suspension of -money-order business on that day throughout England and Wales, it is very -satisfactory to remark, &c. &c. And I confidently anticipate like -satisfactory results, should the Treasury concur in your Lordship’s -recent recommendation of a similar measure in Ireland and Scotland . . . -In considering the above improvement, the importance of similar relief as -respects other duties was kept in mind; and, from the investigations -which have been made, there can be no doubt that a further very important -relief as relates to Sunday work may be effected in all the provincial -offices.” - -{6a} Minute, 25. - -{6b} Minute, 26. - -{6c} Minute, 39. - -{7} Minute, 18, 19. - -{8a} Minute, 17. - -{8b} Minute, 12, 13. “Even to London [under the old system] nearly all -letters from Ireland, Scotland, and the out-ports, as also all foreign -and colonial letters whatever, are brought, as on other days; the same -being partly assorted at the chief office on the Sunday, for delivery or -for forwarding, as the case may be, the next morning. For the -performance of these duties, and for the selection and delivery of the -‘States’ (letters addressed chiefly to the higher offices of Government), -twenty-six persons are ordinarily employed at the chief office on the -Sunday, their time of occupation being, on the average, six hours. The -arrival of a heavy mail from abroad requires a greater force.” - -{10} Minute, 11. “The evil of detention has been found so serious, that -in several cases the rule has been evaded, either by making use of other -existing channels for the conveyance of the mails sent on ordinary days -through London, or by the actual establishment of Sunday cross-posts; -either of which arrangements obviously involves increased expence, -trouble, liability to error, perplexity to the public, _and additional -Sunday work_.” - -{11a} Minute, 14, 33. - -{11b} Minute, 21, 22, 23. “It is notorious that a blank post is -everywhere preceded and followed by a greater amount of correspondence -than usual. Thus, in London, the average number of letters is greater on -Saturday by 6 per cent., and on Monday by 25 per cent., than on other -days. But, as respects the correspondence sent through London, Saturday -evening is at present in most towns a blank post time. It therefore -follows that such correspondence is despatched from the provinces in -unusual amount on Saturday morning, and on Sunday morning or evening, -according as there may or may not be a Sunday day mail. Now each of -these augmentations tends to produce additional Sunday work, both to the -department and to the public. For the letters in the first category are -for the most part distributed by the Post Office and read by the public -on the Sunday, and those in the second are for the most part written by -the public and despatched by the office on Sunday. It is obvious -therefore that, as far as relates to the letters in question, the -proposed change would entirely get rid of Sunday work, as respects the -public; while, as respects the department, it would exchange work now -dispersed through nearly a thousand offices for concentrated employment -in one; the latter requiring a less proportionate force, and falling on -such time as to be dealt with without infringement on the hours of divine -service.” - -{12} Minute, 27, 28; where the _connection_ of this measure with that -now under consideration is more fully illustrated. - -{13} Minute, 37. - -{14} Minute, 34. - - - - -***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LETTER ON THE LATE POST OFFICE -AGITATION*** - - -******* This file should be named 63740-0.txt or 63740-0.zip ******* - - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/6/3/7/4/63740 - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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NICOL, SHAKSPEARE PRESS, PALL MALL.</span></p> - -<div class="gapspace"> </div> -<h2><a name="page3"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 3</span>A -LETTER, &c.</h2> -<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Sir</span>,</p> -<p>We have been lately invited to sign a parochial remonstrance -against some projected changes in the business of the London Post -Office. I, for one, declined the invitation. I never -thought of obtruding upon others my <i>reasons</i> for this -refusal. I am not the Minister of the Parish; nor have my -opinions, therefore, on such a subject, any particular claim on -the attention of my neighbours.</p> -<p>You know the circumstance which now compels me to explain -myself. I regret the necessity. But neither I, nor -those <a name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span>who -have agreed with me on this occasion, can listen in silence to -the imputation of being indifferent to the national observance of -the Sunday. If I can show you that we are not justly liable -to this suspicion, it is well worth while to do so. If I -fail to convince you, I shall at least have entered a serious -protest, for myself and them, against such an imputation.</p> -<p>I have thoroughly examined the original minute (submitted by -Mr. Rowland Hill to the Post Master General in February last) -which formed the basis of the late alteration in the Sunday -duties of the Post Office. I could wish that that minute -had been more generally studied by those who have pronounced a -judgment upon the question. It is open to your inspection: -you may form, therefore, your own opinion upon the justice of the -following observations.</p> -<p>The measure now impugned (the transmission, namely, of certain -provincial and foreign letters through London on the Sunday) is -not an isolated one. It is but one part of a more general -scheme. And what is <a name="page5"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 5</span>the object of that scheme, as -described in the minute referred to? <a name="citation5"></a><a -href="#footnote5" class="citation">[5]</a> <i>The reduction -of the Sunday duties of the Post Office</i>. <i>The -securing of the utmost possible amount of Sunday rest to all -connected with the Post Office</i>. What, again, was the -first part of the same measure? What was that earlier step, -taken by the same persons in the same direction, of which the -present change is a consequence? <i>The total suspension of -all money-order business on Sunday throughout England and -Wales</i>. And what are some of those <a -name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>ulterior -measures, to which the attention of the originators of this is -next to be directed? <i>The deferring of work now done on -the Sunday till after midnight</i>. <a name="citation6a"></a><a -href="#footnote6a" class="citation">[6a]</a> <i>The -reduction of Sunday work</i>, <i>even at the chief Office</i>, -<i>considerably below its present amount</i>. <a -name="citation6b"></a><a href="#footnote6b" -class="citation">[6b]</a> <i>Important measures of relief -to the rural messengers and rural receivers on the Sunday</i>. <a -name="citation6c"></a><a href="#footnote6c" -class="citation">[6c]</a> What, finally, is the declared -object of the <i>present</i> alteration? <i>Further relief -from Sunday labour in the provincial Post Offices</i>; <i>and -thus</i>, <i>the diminution of Sunday work in the department as a -whole</i>. So far from its being correct to state this as a -merely accidental result of the measure, it is its very object -and purpose, to which all else is subordinate and subsidiary.</p> -<p>Ought not these considerations to preclude at least a -precipitate sentence of condemnation? May we not be -permitted to learn the object of a measure from its author? -Are we justified in imputing to any man, I do not say, motives -which he disavows, but motives of which he professes the very -opposite, and against <a name="page7"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 7</span>which his own previous and subsequent -acts obviously militate?</p> -<p>But the change, however well meant, may be practically -injurious. It may cause more harm than it obviates. -It may introduce more Sunday labour than it supersedes. -This is, of course, conceivable. It is just possible, -doubtless, that an able and experienced officer of this -department of the Government may be found, on this one occasion, -so unskilful or so short-sighted, as to have effected, not -<i>less</i> than he proposed, but the very <i>opposite</i> of -that which he designed. But is it so?</p> -<p>It is admitted that, at first sight, the alteration in -question may seem to <i>increase</i> the Sunday duties of the -Post Office. In London, to a certain extent, it does. -It will require, at the outset, the additional attendance of -twenty-five persons (hereafter, possibly, of a somewhat larger -number) on Sunday in the London Post Office. <a -name="citation7"></a><a href="#footnote7" -class="citation">[7]</a> That attendance, you will observe -is <i>voluntary</i>. Nor is it allowed, in any case, to -infringe upon the hours of divine service. It <a -name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>is proposed -that the whole interval from ten in the morning till five in the -afternoon be left perfectly free. <a name="citation8a"></a><a -href="#footnote8a" class="citation">[8a]</a> Nor yet would -it be correct to represent the alteration as involving any change -of <i>principle</i>. The attendance and employment of -<i>certain</i> persons, the reception and assortment of -<i>certain</i> letters, on the Sunday, even in the London Post -Office, is no new thing. <a name="citation8b"></a><a -href="#footnote8b" class="citation">[8b]</a> The conscience -of the Christian community has left <i>these</i> practices -unchallenged and unnoticed until now. Such considerations -ought to have some weight in our estimate of the present -innovation. Still, so far as it goes, <a -name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>and taken -alone, the augmentation of the Sunday force in the London Post -Office is admitted to be an evil. Is it counterbalanced by -any greater good?</p> -<p>It is necessary to take a <i>national</i> view of such a -question. The Post Office system throughout England is one, -not many. The London Office, and the provincial Offices, -are but several parts of one connected whole. The question, -therefore, is, not whether this Office, or that Office, -separately regarded, will be a gainer or a loser by the change; -but whether, on the whole, the <i>aggregate</i> of gain or of -loss will preponderate; whether, so to say, the Post Office of -<i>England</i>, as distinguished from that of London separately, -or that of York or of Manchester separately, will thus be -relieved on the Sunday, or burdened. If twenty-five -<i>additional</i> servants are required in the <i>London</i> -Office on the Sunday, and <i>twice</i> twenty-five can be -<i>relieved</i> on that day in the <i>provincial</i> Offices; the -change, so far as it extends, is salutary. Now, if this -obvious principle be granted, the question is decided at -once. Beyond all contradiction, <a name="page10"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 10</span>the present measure is one of relief -from Sunday labour to the department <i>as a whole</i>. But -the opponents of the measure argue thus: Taking the London Office -by itself, an <i>addition</i> is proposed to the labours of the -Sunday: this is a sinful project: and if it be urged, on the -other side, that a tenfold <i>relief</i> will thus be afforded to -the <i>provincial</i> Offices, they answer, that this is but -<i>doing evil that good may come</i>. Yet is not this -argument capable of an easy inversion? Are you not, in -<i>resisting</i> the proposed relief of the country Offices, on -the plea of regard for that of London, doing, in fact, a great -evil—not that a small good may come, but that a small evil -may not come?</p> -<p>What, then, are some of the advantages (speaking merely with -reference to the observance of the Sunday) by which this admitted -evil is counterbalanced? I will enumerate three only.</p> -<p>1. The cessation of several Sunday cross-posts, by which -the detention of letters in London throughout that day has been -hitherto evaded or obviated: <a name="citation10"></a><a -href="#footnote10" class="citation">[10]</a> and this, <a -name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>without any -addition to the existing number of mail-trains, or other means of -transmission, to or from London, on the Sunday. <a -name="citation11a"></a><a href="#footnote11a" -class="citation">[11a]</a></p> -<p>2. A great diminution of the former amount of letters -written and read in the country on that day. <a -name="citation11b"></a><a href="#footnote11b" -class="citation">[11b]</a></p> -<p><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. -12</span>3. The entire discontinuance of a second delivery -of letters on Sunday throughout England and Wales: <a -name="citation12"></a><a href="#footnote12" -class="citation">[12]</a> a measure affecting considerably more -than two hundred Towns, and affording direct and immediate relief -to a very far larger number of persons.</p> -<p>Nor is it, perhaps, altogether presumptuous to express a hope -that the unrestricted <i>transmission</i> of letters on the -Sunday may eventually be followed by an equally general -<i>suspension</i> of their <i>delivery</i>; by which London and -the country would be placed, in this respect, on a footing of -perfect <a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. -13</span>equality; the due observance of the Sunday being alike -in both secured, with no injurious consequences, in either, to -the business of the following day.</p> -<p>Meanwhile, it is ascertained that, by the alterations already -effected, a very large body (amounting to some hundreds at least) -of persons now occupied on the Sunday in the provincial Offices, -even during the hours of public worship, will be enabled to -obtain rest on that day, and to enjoy without interruption the -benefit of its religious services. <a name="citation13"></a><a -href="#footnote13" class="citation">[13]</a> The number of -principal Post Offices thus benefited, in a greater or less -degree,—some to the extent of <i>seven hours</i> of -additional suspension of business on every Sunday,—amounts -very nearly to <i>five hundred</i>. A very far larger -number, at present imperfectly ascertained, of Sub-offices -throughout the country, will partake of the same advantage. -The total number of <i>persons</i> thus relieved will obviously -far exceed that of the aggregate of <i>Offices</i>. And who -will say that these great benefits, <i>the direct and principal -</i><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. -14</span><i>object</i> (be it remembered) <i>of the whole -measure</i>, are utterly vitiated by their unavoidable -accompaniment—the employment, namely, of a small -<i>additional</i> force in <i>one</i>, the Metropolitan Office, -on the same day?</p> -<p>What, then, remains, to justify the agitation occasioned by -this measure, but a vague and indefinite suspicion that a change -in one direction may lead to a change in the other? that a -measure which proposes neither to bring in nor take out a single -London letter on the Sunday, <a name="citation14"></a><a -href="#footnote14" class="citation">[14]</a> may eventually -cause, in London itself, both a Sunday collection and a Sunday -delivery? that he who now seeks to lighten Sunday labour, to -diminish Sunday deliveries, Sunday letter-writing and -letter-reading, may hereafter lend his aid to their augmentation -and diffusion? Let these evils be met, on their proper -ground, and at the proper time. Let the good sense and the -religious feeling of the country be appealed to when the danger -really threatens. At present, it is as remote as -ever. It will not be brought <a name="page15"></a><span -class="pagenum">p. 15</span>one step nearer by <i>this</i> -measure. But it <i>may</i> be increased by a premature and -unreasonable outcry, to be succeeded, as usual, by a very natural -recoil.</p> -<p style="text-align: center">I remain, my dear Sir,</p> -<p style="text-align: right">Yours very truly,</p> -<p style="text-align: right">C. J. VAUGHAN.</p> -<p><span class="smcap">Harrow</span>,<br /> - <i>November</i> -16, 1849</p> -<h2><a name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span><i>By -the Same Author</i>.</h2> -<p>SERMONS, chiefly Parochial. 8vo. 1845.</p> -<p>SERMONS, preached in the Chapel of Harrow School. -8vo. 1847.</p> -<p>NINE SERMONS, preached for the most part in the Chapel of -Harrow School. 12mo. 1849.</p> - -<div class="gapshortdoubleline"> </div> -<p>AN EARNEST APPEAL to the Master and Seniors of Trinity -College, Cambridge, on the Revision of the Statutes. By -<span class="smcap">Two of the Fellows</span>, 8vo. -1840.</p> -<h2>FOOTNOTES.</h2> -<p><a name="footnote5"></a><a href="#citation5" -class="footnote">[5]</a> See Minute, 1, 2, 3. -“I beg to submit my views as to further measures for -reducing the Sunday duties of the Post Office. The -importance of affording to all connected with the Post Office the -utmost amount of rest on the Sunday that is consistent with a due -regard to public convenience, having led to measures for the -suspension of money-order business on that day throughout England -and Wales, it is very satisfactory to remark, &c. -&c. And I confidently anticipate like satisfactory -results, should the Treasury concur in your Lordship’s -recent recommendation of a similar measure in Ireland and -Scotland . . . In considering the above improvement, the -importance of similar relief as respects other duties was kept in -mind; and, from the investigations which have been made, there -can be no doubt that a further very important relief as relates -to Sunday work may be effected in all the provincial -offices.”</p> -<p><a name="footnote6a"></a><a href="#citation6a" -class="footnote">[6a]</a> Minute, 25.</p> -<p><a name="footnote6b"></a><a href="#citation6b" -class="footnote">[6b]</a> Minute, 26.</p> -<p><a name="footnote6c"></a><a href="#citation6c" -class="footnote">[6c]</a> Minute, 39.</p> -<p><a name="footnote7"></a><a href="#citation7" -class="footnote">[7]</a> Minute, 18, 19.</p> -<p><a name="footnote8a"></a><a href="#citation8a" -class="footnote">[8a]</a> Minute, 17.</p> -<p><a name="footnote8b"></a><a href="#citation8b" -class="footnote">[8b]</a> Minute, 12, 13. “Even -to London [under the old system] nearly all letters from Ireland, -Scotland, and the out-ports, as also all foreign and colonial -letters whatever, are brought, as on other days; the same being -partly assorted at the chief office on the Sunday, for delivery -or for forwarding, as the case may be, the next morning. -For the performance of these duties, and for the selection and -delivery of the ‘States’ (letters addressed chiefly -to the higher offices of Government), twenty-six persons are -ordinarily employed at the chief office on the Sunday, their time -of occupation being, on the average, six hours. The arrival -of a heavy mail from abroad requires a greater force.”</p> -<p><a name="footnote10"></a><a href="#citation10" -class="footnote">[10]</a> Minute, 11. “The evil -of detention has been found so serious, that in several cases the -rule has been evaded, either by making use of other existing -channels for the conveyance of the mails sent on ordinary days -through London, or by the actual establishment of Sunday -cross-posts; either of which arrangements obviously involves -increased expence, trouble, liability to error, perplexity to the -public, <i>and additional Sunday work</i>.”</p> -<p><a name="footnote11a"></a><a href="#citation11a" -class="footnote">[11a]</a> Minute, 14, 33.</p> -<p><a name="footnote11b"></a><a href="#citation11b" -class="footnote">[11b]</a> Minute, 21, 22, 23. -“It is notorious that a blank post is everywhere preceded -and followed by a greater amount of correspondence than -usual. Thus, in London, the average number of letters is -greater on Saturday by 6 per cent., and on Monday by 25 per -cent., than on other days. But, as respects the -correspondence sent through London, Saturday evening is at -present in most towns a blank post time. It therefore -follows that such correspondence is despatched from the provinces -in unusual amount on Saturday morning, and on Sunday morning or -evening, according as there may or may not be a Sunday day -mail. Now each of these augmentations tends to produce -additional Sunday work, both to the department and to the -public. For the letters in the first category are for the -most part distributed by the Post Office and read by the public -on the Sunday, and those in the second are for the most part -written by the public and despatched by the office on -Sunday. It is obvious therefore that, as far as relates to -the letters in question, the proposed change would entirely get -rid of Sunday work, as respects the public; while, as respects -the department, it would exchange work now dispersed through -nearly a thousand offices for concentrated employment in one; the -latter requiring a less proportionate force, and falling on such -time as to be dealt with without infringement on the hours of -divine service.”</p> -<p><a name="footnote12"></a><a href="#citation12" -class="footnote">[12]</a> Minute, 27, 28; where the -<i>connection</i> of this measure with that now under -consideration is more fully illustrated.</p> -<p><a name="footnote13"></a><a href="#citation13" -class="footnote">[13]</a> Minute, 37.</p> -<p><a name="footnote14"></a><a href="#citation14" -class="footnote">[14]</a> Minute, 34.</p> -<pre> - - - - -***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A LETTER ON THE LATE POST OFFICE -AGITATION*** - - -***** This file should be named 63740-h.htm or 63740-h.zip****** - - -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: -http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/6/3/7/4/63740 - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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