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This book is about a man with a mad enthusiasm for the postal service. In 1898, W. Reginald Bray bought a copy of the Post Office Guide.
After careful study, he began to send bizarre objects through the post,
not out of malice (though the postmen must have sometimes thought
otherwise), but out of a desire “to test the ingenuity of the postal
authorities.” He sent unusual items (a rabbit’s skull, a turnip, his
dog, himself) and letters with unusual addresses (crocheted, in rebus,
by train ticket, in photographs). He collected an enormous number of
autographs by post and became a minor celebrity because of his postal
antics. His eccentricity and commitment to his enthusiasms is both
delightful and odd, and the many photographs that illustrate some of
his strangest postal experiments are a reminder of how refreshing it is
to discover someone who is truly, obsessively, and happily fascinated
by something we most often take for granted. -- Megan K.
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