Short story first published in 1905 and set set in the future in the year 2000. The story begins: "At nine o'clock of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G. P. O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in "Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed"; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order. This talisman opened all doors, even those in the despatching-caisson at the foot of the tower, where they were delivering the sorted Continental mail. The bags lay packed close as herrings in the long gray under-bodies which our G. P. O. still calls "coaches." Five such coaches were filled as I watched, and were shot up the guides to be locked on to their waiting packets three hundred feet nearer the stars."
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With the Night Mail: a Story of 2000 A.D. (1905)
Short story first published in 1905 and set set in the future in the year 2000. The story begins: "At nine o'clock of a gusty winter night I stood on the lower stages of one of the G. P. O. outward mail towers. My purpose was a run to Quebec in "Postal Packet 162 or such other as may be appointed"; and the Postmaster-General himself countersigned the order. This talisman opened all doors, even those in the despatching-caisson at the foot of the tower, where they were delivering the sorted Continental mail. The bags lay packed close as herrings in the long gray under-bodies which our G. P. O. still calls "coaches." Five such coaches were filled as I watched, and were shot up the guides to be locked on to their waiting packets three hundred feet nearer the stars."
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With the Night Mail: a Story of 2000 A.D. (1905)
With the Night Mail: a Story of 2000 A.D. (1905)
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| ISBN-13: | 9781455398119 |
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| Publisher: | B&R Samizdat Express |
| Publication date: | 11/04/2010 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 139 KB |
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