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单词 blind reader
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blind reader
c. Used of a letter indistinctly or imperfectly addressed. blind man, blind officer, blind reader, a post-office employé who deals with such letters.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [adjective] > indistinctly or imperfectly addressed
blind1864
society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > official of the post > other postal officials
window man1687
window clerk1770
stamper1850
blind man1864
blind reader1864
1864 W. Lewins Her Majesty's Mails 204 The ‘blind Letter Office’ is the receptacle for all illegible, misspelt, and misdirected or insufficiently addressed letters or packets.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. A few specimen letters which have recently racked the brains of the ‘blind readers’ at the Post Office.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 May 5 The ingenuity of the ‘blind’ men of the Post Office.
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