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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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It
was
shown
beyond
all
dispute,
that
the
scheme
had
almost
entirely
prevented
breaches
of
the
law,
and
that
if
any
illicit
correspondence
was
carried
on,
it
was
simply
and
purely
in
matters
where
the
question
of
speed
was
involved;
that
the
evils,
amounting
to
social
prohibitions,
so
prevalent
before
the
change,
had
been,
for
the
most
part,
removed.
Commercial
transactions,
relating
even
to
very
small
amounts,
were
now
managed
through
the
post.
Small
orders
were
constantly
transmitted;
the
business
of
the
Money-order
Office
having
increased
almost
twenty-fold--first,
from
the
reduction
of
postage
in
1840,
and
then
from
the
reduction
of
the
fees
in
November
of
the
same
year.
These
orders
are
generally
acknowledged.
Printers
send
their
proofs
without
hesitation;[104]
the
commercial
traveller
writes
regularly
to
his
principal,
and
is
enabled
for
the
first
time
to
advise
his
customers
of
his
approach;
private
individuals
and
public
institutions
distribute
widely
their
circulars
and
their
accounts
of
proceedings
to
every
part
of
the
land.
Better
than
any
account
that
we
might
give
of
the
reception
of
this
boon
by
the
country,
and
the
social
and
commercial
advantages
which
were
immediately
seen
to
follow
from
it,
we
may
here
give
some
account
of
the
correspondence
which
flowed
in
upon
Mr.
Hill
between
1840-1842,
and
which
he
read
to
the
select
committee
appointed
to
try
the
merits
of
his
scheme.
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