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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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In
1857,
a
new
regulation
provided
that
a
book-packet
might
consist
of
any
number
of
sheets,
which
might
be
either
printed
or
written,
provided
there
was
nothing
in
it
of
the
nature
of
a
letter.
If
anything
of
the
sort
should
be
found
in
the
packet
on
examination,
it
was
to
be
taken
out
and
forwarded
separately
as
a
letter,
and
charged
twopence
as
a
fine
in
addition
to
the
postage
at
the
letter
rate.
The
packet
might
consist
of
books,
manuscripts,
maps,
prints
with
rollers,
or
any
literary
or
artistic
matter,
if
not
more
than
two
feet
wide,
long,
or
deep.
In
the
same
year,
the
letter-rate
to
all
the
British
Colonies
(which
were
not
previously
under
the
lower
rates)
was
reduced
to
the
uniform
one
of
sixpence
for
each
half-ounce,
payable
in
advance.
The
privileges
of
the
English
book-post
were
also
extended
to
the
Colonies;
the
rate
at
which
books
&c.
might
be
sent
being
threepence
for
every
four
ounces.
Exceptions
were
made
in
respect
to
the
following
places,
viz.--Ascension
Island,
East
Indies,
Hong
Kong,
Australia,
New
Zealand,
and
the
Gold
Coast,
to
which
places
the
rate
charged
was
fourpence
for
four
ounces,
the
weight
being
restricted
to
three
pounds.
Another
important
improvement
was
made
when,
about
the
same
time,
the
postage
on
letters
conveyed
by
private
ship
between
this
country
and
all
parts
of
the
world,
was
reduced
to
a
uniform
rate
of
sixpence
the
half-ounce.
Nor
were
these
reforms
the
only
results
of
the
wise
rule
of
the
Duke
of
Argyll.
Through
his
exertions,
a
postal
convention
was
concluded
with
France,
resulting
not
only
in
a
considerable
reduction
of
postage
on
letters
passing
between
the
two
countries,
but
in
the
lowering
of
the
rate
to
all
European
countries,
letters
for
which
went
by
way
of
France.
An
attempt
was
made
to
arrange
a
postal
convention
with
the
United
States
during
the
year
1857,
but
like
so
many
previous
ones,
it
came
to
nothing.
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