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[WP] In 1829, a dying woman in a village near Mansfield asked a friend to bury her son’s letters with her. She forgot and had them buried with the local postman who died soon after hoping him to be ‘as diligent a postman in the other world as he had been in this’.

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[WP] In 1829, a dying woman in a village near Mansfield asked a friend to bury her son’s letters with her. She forgot and had them buried with the local postman who died soon after hoping him to be ‘as diligent a postman in the other world as he had been in this’.	579