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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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From
the
date
of
the
opening
of
the
new
General
Post-Office,
improvements
were
proposed
and
carried
out
very
earnestly.
Under
the
Duke
of
Richmond,
reforms
in
the
establishment
set
in
with
considerable
vigour.[72]
He
seems
to
have
been
the
first
Postmaster-General
during
the
present
century
who
thought
the
accommodation
which
the
Post-Office
gave
to
the
public
was
really
of
a
restrictive
nature;
that
more
facility
might
easily
be
given
to
the
public;
and
that
the
system
of
management
was
an
erroneous
one.
In
1834,
the
Duke
of
Richmond
submitted
a
list
of
improvements
to
the
Treasury
Lords,
in
which
there
were
at
least
thirty
substantial
measures
of
reform
proposed.
It
is
true
that
many
of
these
measures
had
been
strongly
recommended
to
him
by
the
Commissioners
of
Post-Office
Inquiry,
who
had
sat
yearly
on
the
Post-Office
and
other
revenue
branches
of
the
public
service.
The
previous
policy,
however,
of
the
authorities
was
to
put
on
a
bold
front
against
any
recommendations
not
originating
with
themselves.
The
Duke
of
Richmond
had
considerably
less
of
this
feeling
than
some
of
his
predecessors.
Thus,
to
take
the
principal
measure
of
reform
concluded
in
his
time--namely,
the
complete
amalgamation
of
the
Scotch
and
Irish
Offices
with
the
English
Post-Office--we
find
that
the
twenty-third
report
of
the
Commissioners,
signed
by
"Wallace,"
W.
J.
Lushington,
Henry
Berens,
and
J.
P.
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