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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
176
Ten
times
the
weight
of
evidence,
and
far
more
striking
instances
of
the
advantages
of
the
penny-post
scheme
might
now
be
adduced,
but
it
must
be
remembered
that
we
are
here
speaking
merely
of
first
results,
and
when
the
scheme
had
been
but
two
years
in
operation.
Numbers
of
tradesmen
wrote
to
say
how
their
business
had
increased
within
the
two
years.
One
large
merchant
now
sent
the
whole
of
his
invoices
by
post;
another
increased
the
number
of
his
"prices
current"
by
10,000
per
annum.
Messrs.
Pickford
and
Co.
the
carriers,
despatched
by
post
eight
times
the
number
of
letters
posted
in
1839;
whilst
the
letters,
had
they
been
liable
to
be
charged
as
per
single
sheet,
would
have
numbered
720,000
in
1842
from
this
one
firm,
against
30,000
letters
in
1839.
In
this
case
we
have
an
exemplification
of
the
correctness
of
the
argument
upon
which
Mr.
Hill
built
his
scheme;
for
the
increase
of
money
actually
paid
for
postage
was
at
the
rate
of
33
per
cent.
Mr.
Charles
Knight,
the
London
bookseller,
said
the
penny
postage
stimulated
every
branch
of
his
trade,
and
brought
the
country
booksellers
into
almost
daily
communication
with
the
London
houses.
Mr.
Bagster,
the
publisher
of
a
Polyglot
Bible
in
twenty-four
languages,
stated
to
Mr.
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