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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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APPENDIX
(H).
The
following
important
document,
published
by
Sir
Rowland
Hill
on
his
resignation
of
the
Secretaryship
of
the
Post-Office,
and
circulated
privately,
is
deserving
of
careful
study,
as
giving
the
results
of
the
penny-postage
reform
up
to
the
latest
date:--
RESULTS
OF
POSTAL
REFORM.
Before
stating
the
results
of
postal
reform,
it
may
be
convenient
that
I
should
briefly
enumerate
the
more
important
organic
improvements
effected.
They
are
as
follows:--
1.
A
very
large
reduction
in
the
rates
of
postage
on
all
correspondence,
whether
inland,
foreign,
or
colonial.
As
instances
in
point,
it
may
be
stated
that
letters
are
now
conveyed
from
any
part
of
the
United
Kingdom
to
any
other
part--even
from
the
Channel
Islands
to
the
Shetland
Isles--at
one-fourth
of
the
charge
previously
levied
on
letters
passing
between
post
towns
only
a
few
miles
apart;[216]
and
that
the
rate
formerly
charged
for
this
slight
distance,
viz.
fourpence--now
suffices
to
carry
a
letter
from
any
part
of
the
United
Kingdom
to
any
part
of
France,
Algeria
included.
2.
The
adoption
of
charge
by
weight,
which,
by
abolishing
the
charge
for
mere
enclosures,
in
effect
largely
extended
the
reduction
of
rates.
3.
Arrangements
which
have
led
to
the
almost
universal
resort
to
prepayment
of
correspondence,
and
that
by
means
of
stamps.
4.
The
simplification
of
the
mechanism
and
accounts
of
the
Department
generally
by
the
above
and
other
means.
5.
The
establishment
of
the
book-post
(including
in
its
operation
all
printed
and
much
MS.
matter)
at
very
low
rates,
and
its
modified
extension
to
our
colonies
and
to
many
foreign
countries.
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