Kate Thomas has argued that postal networks are "sites of intermixing and intermediation" (Kienle's summation) that are "as open to play as they are to policing" and can produce "queer interfaces and reverberations"
see her Postal Pleasures : Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters
Editorial: A "[h]ighly original study that explores illicit sex and queer culture through the postal network: The Victorian postal system mediated everyday life, and Postal Pleasures shows how cheap, fast and regular letter sending and delivery became a rhythm as crucial to British life as teatime."