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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
145
The
justice
and
propriety
of
a
uniform
rate
was
further
shown,
but
in
a
smaller
degree,
by
the
fact
that
the
relative
cost
of
transmission
of
letters
under
the
old
system
was
not
always
dependent
on
the
distance
the
mails
were
carried.
Thus,
the
Edinburgh
mail,
the
longest
and
most
important
of
all,
cost
5l.
for
each
journey.
Calculating
the
proportionate
weight
of
bags,
letters,
and
newspapers,
Mr.
Hill[84]
arrived
at
the
absolute
cost
of
carrying
a
newspaper
of
an
average
weight
of
1½
oz.
at
one-sixth
of
a
penny,
and
that
of
a
letter
of
an
average
weight
of
¼
oz.
at
one-thirty-sixth
of
a
penny.
These
sums
being
the
full
cost
for
the
whole
distance,
Mr.
Hill
assumed,
fairly
enough,
that
the
same
rating
would
do
for
any
place
on
the
road.
It
was
admitted
on
all
hands,
that
the
chief
labour
was
expended
in
making
up,
opening,
and
delivering
the
mails;
therefore
the
fact
whether
it
was
carried
one
mile
or
a
hundred
made
comparatively
little
difference
in
the
expenditure
of
the
office.
The
expenses
and
trouble
being
much
the
same,
perhaps
even
less
at
Edinburgh
than
at
some
intermediate
point,
why
should
the
charges
be
so
different?
But
the
case
could
be
made
still
stronger.
The
mail
for
Louth,
containing
as
it
did
comparatively
few
letters,
cost
the
Post-Office
authorities,
as
the
simple
expense
of
transit,
one
penny-farthing
per
letter.
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