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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
242
The
gross
revenue
of
the
Post-Office
for
the
year
1863
was,
in
round
numbers,
3,800,000l.,
being
more
by
nearly
a
quarter
of
a
million
sterling
than
the
proceeds
for
the
year
1862.
Of
this
enormous
total,
England
contributed
upwards
of
3,000,000l.,
the
remainder
having
been
raised
from
Ireland
and
Scotland.
To
this
sum
should
be
added
a
further
item
of
130,000l.
for
the
impressed
stamp
on
newspapers
sent
through
the
post,
the
charges
for
which
are
collected
by
the
Commissioners
of
Inland
Revenue.
The
actual
expenditure
of
the
Department,
including
the
expenses
of
mail-packets
(great
part
of
which
appertain
to
the
Admiralty),
amounted,
in
round
numbers,
to
3,000,000l.
The
amount
of
all
the
items
belonging
exclusively
to
Post-Office
charges
is,
however,
less
than
two
and
a
quarter
millions.
The
net
revenue
of
the
Post-Office
for
1863
may,
therefore,
be
stated
at
1,790,000l.;
or,
counting
the
whole
of
the
packet
expenses--which
mode
of
reckoning,
however,
would
lead
to
erroneous
notions
of
the
financial
success
of
penny
postage--to
a
clear
revenue
of
900,000l.
At
the
end
of
1862,
the
staff
of
officers
employed
in
the
British
Post-Office
numbered
25,380.
Of
this
number
25,285
were
engaged
in
the
British
Isles,
73
in
foreign
countries
(as
agents
collecting
the
British
share
of
foreign
postage),
and
22
in
the
colonies.[140]
Of
the
employés
at
home,
between
3,000
and
4,000
are
attached
to
the
London
Office
alone,
while
the
remainder,
including
more
than
11,000
postmasters,
belong
to
the
establishments
in
the
various
towns
and
villages
of
the
United
Kingdom.
The
entire
staff
is
under
the
immediate
control
of
the
Postmaster-General,
assisted
by
the
General
Secretary
of
the
Post-Office
in
London.
The
service
of
the
three
kingdoms,
notwithstanding
this
direct
control,
is
managed
in
the
respective
capitals,
at
each
of
which
there
is
a
chief
office,
with
a
secretarial
and
other
departmental
staffs.[141]
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