Charles Dickens raged against postal delivery plan

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Charles Dicken

Charles Dickens campaigned for postal deliveries on Sundays in his Kent village, The Times reported. A letter has emerged in which the author bemoaned his neighbours’ bid to end a Sunday postal delivery and warned that he would leave the area if it was discontinued. The “proposed cessation of the Sunday Delivery of letters” may not affect his neighbours, who had not objected, he wrote. But “my case as a public man with a large correspondence is very much greater than theirs, and should far outweigh it”.

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