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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
237
Within
the
last
ten
years
the
facilities
offered
to
letter-writers
by
the
Post-Office
have
materially
increased.
Four
thousand
additional
persons
have
had
to
be
employed
in
the
service,
one
half,
at
least,
of
whom
are
engaged
on
account
of
the
facilities
and
improvements
in
question,
whilst
the
remainder
may
be
said
to
have
been
required
by
the
gradual
increase
of
work
in
the
establishment.
The
establishment
of
mid-day
mails,
increasing
the
number
of
daily
deliveries
in
almost
every
provincial
town;
the
acceleration
of
night-mails,
allowing
more
time
for
posting
in
some
places,
and
earlier
deliveries
in
all;
the
increase
in
the
number
of
village
posts,
to
the
extent
of
between
three
and
four
hundred
every
year;
the
gradual
extension
of
free
deliveries;
the
establishment
of
pillar
letter-boxes
as
receptacles
for
letters;
reductions
in
the
rate
of
foreign
and
colonial
letters,
and
also
in
the
registration
fee
for
home
letters;
the
division
of
London,
and
to
some
extent
other
large
towns,
like
Liverpool,
into
districts;
and
above
all,
the
establishment
of
thousands
of
new
savings'
banks
on
safe
principles,
in
connexion
with
improved
money-order
offices;
are
some
of
the
principal
advantages
and
facilities
to
which
we
refer.
The
past
ten
years
have
been
years
of
great,
gradual,
and
unexampled
improvement.
Nor
is
there
anything
but
progress
and
advancement
in
prospect.
The
fact
is,
that
the
Post-Office
is
capable
of
infinite
extension
and
growth:
besides
it
belongs
to
the
nation,
and
the
people
will
expect
the
development
of
the
utmost
of
its
utilities.
At
the
present
time
the
experiment
is
being
tried
whether,
without
impairing
its
efficiency
or
the
performance
of
its
more
proper
business,
the
Post-Office
can
undertake
the
distribution
of
stamps;
and
it
is
not
impossible,
considering
that
it
has
at
its
command
an
organization
which
penetrates
the
entire
kingdom,
as
no
other
private
or
public
institution
does,
that
the
Stamp
Department
may
be
transferred
to
the
control
of
the
Postmaster-General.
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