CURIOSITIES OF THE POST OFFICE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1064, 6 February 1883, Page 3

CURIOSITIES OF THE POST OFFICE.

A writer in tho Australasian, ui tlie course of an article on the General Post Office at Home, says '‘ One of the curiosities ot the General Post Office is a series of volumes containing facsimiles of some of the most extraordinary of the addresses which have exercised the patient scrutiny of the ‘ blind clerk,’ as also exact reproducductions of the numerous pictorial envelopes—where these have been covered with original drawings—which pass through the office from time to time. Some ot the former are almost incredibly unintelligible, Who would imagine, tor example, that ‘ Mr damuel Monday, at Mr John loveglove hugelgut meer the castle inn neer Asbmaedale a,’ lived at Ashby-de-la-Zouch 7 or, that ‘E, Worment Grazer laverfral near Ilortmen ’ was to be found a Lower Froyle, Alton 7 or, that ‘ Bryracky ’ meant Billericay 7 or ‘ Wauncey Boad hupper ollay ’ was intended lor Hornsey road, Upfer Holloway? or, ‘ Conhage luney teacosolum ’ meant Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum ? or, that a letter directed ‘ London Colloney will saut orbans forward for mi chel M cluigh ’ would find its way to Michael M'Culloch, London Colney, near St Albans 7 "Yet these are only a few out of scores of extraordinary addresses which pass through the General Post Office from time to time, while one of the officers finds employment in scaling, or tyingup, and in re-directing packets which have been insufficiently secured, and sometimes discharge their contents into the letter-bag.