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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
·
James Wilson Hyde
87
We
would
present
a
further
contrast
between
the
past
and
the
present
as
regards
the
packet
service.
So
late
as
1829,
and
perhaps
later
still,
the
voyages
out
to
the
undermentioned
places
and
home
again
were
estimated
to
take
the
following
number
of
days,
viz.:--
Days.
To
Jamaica,
112
"
America,
105
"
Leeward
Islands,
91
"
Malta,
98
"
Brazil,
140
"
Lisbon,
28
There
were
then
no
regular
packets
to
China,
New
South
Wales,
Sierra
Leone,
Cape
Coast
Castle,
Goree,
Senegal,
St
Helena,
and
many
parts
of
South
America;
opportunity
being
taken
to
send
ship
letter-bags
to
these
places
as
occasion
offered
by
trading
vessels.
Nowadays
the
transit
of
letters
to
the
places
first
above-mentioned
is
estimated
to
occupy
the
following
number
of
days:--
Days.
To
Jamaica,
18
"
America,
7
"
West
Indies,
16
"
Malta,
4-1/2
"
Brazil,
21
"
Lisbon,
3
And
the
return
mails
would
occupy
a
similar
amount
of
time.
In
nothing
perhaps
will
the
advantages
now
offered
by
the
Post-office,
in
connection
with
the
packet
service,
be
more
appreciated
by
the
public
than
in
the
reduced
rates
of
postage.
The
following
table
shows
the
initial
rates
for
letters
to
several
places
abroad
in
1829
and
in
1884:--
1829.
1884.
France,
2s.
1d.
2-1/2d.
Italy,
2s.
10d.
2-1/2d.
Spain,
3s.
1d.
2-1/2d.
Sweden,
2s.
7d.
2-1/2d.
Portugal,
2s.
9d.
2-1/2d.
Gibraltar,
3s.
1d.
2-1/2d.
Malta,
3s.
5d.
2-1/2d.
United
States,
2s.
5d.
2-1/2d.
Brazil,
3s.
9d.
4d.
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