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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
193
Mr.
Hill's
principal
recommendations
to
this
Committee
were--
(1)
The
plan
of
a
cheap
registration
of
letters.
(2)
That
all
inland
letters
should
be
prepaid
(care
being
taken
that
postmasters
should
be
supplied
with
a
sufficient
stock
of
postage-stamps),
and
double
postage
charged
for
all
unpaid
letters.
(3)
Reduction
in
the
staff
of
officers
till
the
number
of
letters
increased
to
five
or
sixfold;
that
the
London
officers
should
be
fully
and
not
only
partially
employed;
and
that
female
employment
might
be
encouraged
in
the
provinces.
(4)
Simplification
in
the
mode
of
assorting
letters.
(5)
The
adoption
of
measures
to
induce
the
public
to
facilitate
the
operations
of
the
Post-Office--by
giving
complete
and
legible
addresses
to
letters,
by
making
slits
in
house-doors,
and
other
means.
(6)
The
establishment
of
a
greater
number
of
rural
post-offices,
till,
eventually,
there
should
be
one
set
up
in
every
village.
(7)
All
restrictions
as
to
the
weight
of
parcels
to
be
removed,
and
a
book-packet
rate
to
be
established,
with
arrangements
for
conveying
prints,
maps,
&c.
&c.
That
railway
stations
should
have
post-offices
connected
with
them,
and
that
letter-sorting
should
be
done
on
board
the
packets,
were
among
his
miscellaneous
suggestions.
With
especial
reference
to
the
London
Office,
Mr.
Hill
recommended
(1)
the
union
of
the
two
corps
of
general
and
district
letter-carriers;
(2)
the
establishment
of
district
offices;
(3)
an
hourly
delivery
of
letters
instead
of
one
every
two
hours,
the
first
delivery
to
be
finished
by
nine
o'clock.
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