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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
76
CHAPTER
V.
MAIL-PACKETS.
The
employment
of
vessels
for
the
conveyance
of
mails
seems
to
have
passed
through
three
several
stages,
each
no
doubt
merging
into
the
next,
but
each
retaining,
nevertheless,
distinct
features
of
its
own.
First,
there
was
the
stage
when
Government
equipped
and
manned
its
own
ships
for
the
service;
then
there
was
an
age
of
very
heavy
subsidies
to
shipping
companies
who
could
not
undertake
regularity
of
sailing
without
some
such
assistance;
and
now
there
is
the
third
stage,
when,
through
the
great
development
of
international
trade
and
the
consequent
competition
of
rival
shipowners,
regularity
of
sailing
is
ensured
apart
from
the
post,
and
the
Government
is
able
to
make
better
terms
for
the
conveyance
of
the
mails.
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