For a piece of fiction I'm writing set at Oxford, I just need to verify the setup of the pigeon post in the porters' lodges, or more specifically, at Hertford
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I've never seen locked pidges; it's normally just a wall of rectangular shelves, each labelled with the surname of the student above or below. Sometimes you have to share your pidge with someone, if the college is short of space. Each pidge might be big enough for a normal-sized hardback to stand up in it, or lie lengthwise on its longest edge. Not wide enough for the book to lie flat, however. Hope you can picture what I mean!
The pidge post is like a mini postal system in its functioning. There are deliverymen/women who work for the university who visit each college's lodge twice (or maybe more) a day, on bikes. They would also do the rounds of the departments and admin offices. They pick up the internal mail, and it presumably goes to a central sorting location before being redirected. It might take a day or two for the mail to reach its destination.
The pidge post is like a mini postal system in its functioning. There are deliverymen/women who work for the university who visit each college's lodge twice (or maybe more) a day, on bikes. They would also do the rounds of the departments and admin offices. They pick up the internal mail, and it presumably goes to a central sorting location before being redirected. It might take a day or two for the mail to reach its destination.
Hope that helps!
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