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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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In
1855,
the
Postmaster-General,
the
late
Lord
Canning,
commenced
the
practice
of
furnishing
the
Lords
of
the
Treasury,
and
through
them
the
public,
with
annual
reports
on
the
Post-Office.
These
reports,
which
have
been
continued
up
to
the
present
time,
show
the
progress
of
the
Department
from
year
to
year,
and
present
to
the
general
reader,
as
well
as
to
the
statistician,
a
vast
mass
of
interesting
information.
Compared
with
the
reports
of
the
Committee
of
Revenue
Inquiry
or
of
the
Commissioners
of
Post-Office
Inquiry,
they
are
lucid
and
interesting
in
their
nature.
Though
constructed
on
the
same
plan
and
little
varied
from
year
to
year,
they
are
much
above
the
ordinary
run
of
official
documents.
Lord
Canning,
in
recommending
the
adoption
of
the
plan,
gave
as
one
reason
among
many,
that
the
Post-Office
service
was
constantly
expanding
and
improving,
but
that
information
respecting
postal
matters,
especially
postal
changes,
was
not
easily
accessible.
This
information,
he
believed,
could
be
given
without
any
inconvenience,
whilst
many
misapprehensions,
and
possibly
complaints,
might
be
avoided.
The
public
might
thus
see
what
the
Post-Office
was
about;
learn
their
duty
towards
the
Department,
and
find
out--what
half
the
people
did
not
then
and
perhaps
do
not
even
yet
understand--what
were
the
benefits
and
privileges
to
which
they
were
justly
entitled
at
its
hands.
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