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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
216
CHAPTER
X.
THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF
THE
POST-OFFICE.
From
the
year
1844
to
the
present
time
the
progress
of
the
Post-Office
institution
has
been
great
and
unexampled.
Among
Mr.
Hill's
minor
proposals
were
those
for
the
institution
of
day-mails,
the
establishment
of
rural
posts,
and
the
extension
of
free
deliveries.
The
period
between
the
passing
of
the
Penny
Postage
Act
and
the
year
1850
saw
these
useful
suggestions
carried
out
to
an
extent
which
proved
highly
beneficial
to
the
public.
With
regard
to
the
day-mails,
Mr.
Hill
proposed
that
on
the
morning
of
each
day,
as
well
as
evenings,
mails
should
leave
London
after
certain
country
and
continental
mails
had
arrived,
by
which
means
letters,
instead
of
remaining
nearly
twenty-four
hours
in
London,
might
be
at
once
forwarded
to
their
addresses,
and
two
mails
per
diem
be
thus
given
to
most
English
towns.
The
Earl
of
Lichfield
would
seem
to
have
seen
the
useful
and
practicable
nature
of
these
proposals,
for,
being
Postmaster-General
at
the
time,
he
did
not
wait
to
adopt
them
till
the
passing
of
the
Act
of
1839.
As
early
as
1838
one
or
two
day-mails
were
established,
running
out
of
London.
Before
1850
we
find
the
list
included
those
of
Dover,
Southampton,
Bristol,
Birmingham,
and
Cambridge.
These
day-mails
are
now
established
on
every
considerable
line
of
railway
in
the
kingdom.
London,
in
1864,
possesses
not
only
day-mails
on
all
the
lines
running
from
the
metropolis,
but
one
to
Ireland,
and
two
by
different
routes
into
Scotland.
Further,
a
great
number
of
railways
in
the
United
Kingdom
have
stipulated
to
take
mails
by
any
passenger-train.
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