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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
133
Though
all
these
improvements
were
being
carried
out,
and
in
many
respects
the
Post-Office
was
showing
signs
of
progression,
the
authorities
still
clung
with
a
most
unreasonable
tenacity
to
the
accustomed
rates
of
postage,
and
of
necessity
to
all
the
evils
which
followed
in
the
train
of
an
erroneous
fiscal
principle.
Contrary
to
all
experience
in
any
other
department,
the
Government
obstinately
refused
to
listen
for
a
moment
to
any
plan
for
the
reduction
of
postage
rates,
or,
what
is
still
more
remarkable,
even
to
the
alleviation
of
burdens
caused
directly
by
the
official
arrangements
of
the
period.
For
example,
Colonel
Maberly
had
no
sooner
learnt
the
business
of
his
office,
than
he
saw
very
clearly
an
anomaly
which
pressed
heavily
in
some
cases,
and
was
felt
in
all.
He
at
once
made
a
proposition
to
the
Treasury
that
letters
should
be
charged
in
all
cases
according
to
the
exact
distance
between
the
places
where
a
letter
was
posted
and
where
delivered,
and
not
according
to
the
distance
through
which
the
Post-Office,
for
purposes
of
its
own,
might
choose
to
send
such
letters.
It
may
serve
to
show
the
extent
to
which
this
strange
and
anomalous
practice
was
carried,
if
we
state
that
the
estimated
reduction
in
the
postal
revenue,
had
Colonel
Maberly's
suggestion
been
acted
upon,
was
given
at
no
less
than
80,000l.
annually!
The
Lords
of
the
Treasury
promptly
refused
the
concession.
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