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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
377
[197]
We
do
not
mention
this
latter
circumstance,
be
it
understood,
to
discourage
the
use
of
slits
or
letter-boxes
in
private
doors.
An
occurrence
of
the
above
kind
must
be
exceedingly
rare,
whilst
nothing
so
much
helps
the
prompt
delivery
of
letters
as
such
an
arrangement.
[198]
Perhaps,
however,
there
is
room
to
doubt
whether
the
true
reform
will
consist
in
anything
less
than
the
entire
abolition
of
packet
subsidies,
and
the
offering
of
the
contracts
in
the
ordinary
way
of
commercial
transactions.
An
ocean
penny-postage,
e.
g.
penny
sea-postage,
would
then
be
almost
inevitable.
A
letter
charged
a
penny
the
half-ounce
would
amount
to
nearly
300l.
a
ton,
an
enormous
freightage
it
will
be
admitted,
to
the
United
States,
being
even
fifteen
times
steam
freight
to
India.
Nor
when
the
letters
get
across
the
sea
would
they
be
subject
to
heavy
inland
postage
either
in
the
one
country
or
the
other.
In
the
United
States
letters
are
circulated
for
thousands
of
miles
for
three
cents,
while
for
half
an
anna,
a
sum
equivalent
to
three
farthings
of
English
money,
a
letter
may
be
forwarded
through
the
length
and
breadth
of
British
India.
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