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I came across this passage in Posting It and just had to share it with you all:

[Anthony Trollope's character, Jemima Stanbury], placed little confidence in [pillar post boxes]: ‘She had not the faintest belief that any letter put into one of them would ever reach its destination.  She could not understand why people should not walk with their letters to a  respectable post-office instead of chucking them into an iron stump– as she called it– out in the middle of the street with nobody to look after it.  Postive orders had been given that no letters from her house should ever be put into the iron post’ (p. 117).

I don’t know why but this passage just tickles me.  Oh, also, Lewis Carrol wrote a letter writing manual: Eight or Nine Wise Words on Letter Writing.  This is a thing which I must get my hands on post haste.