Her Majesty's Mails

1. The uniform rate of one penny for a letter not above half an ounce, with weight adopted as the standard for increase of charge. 2. The value of a system of prepayment was established,[114] the necessary facility being afforded by the introduction of postage-stamps. Double postage was levied on letters not prepaid in London only. 3. Day-mails were established on the principal railway-lines running out of London, thus giving some of the principal towns in the provinces one additional delivery, with two mails from the metropolis in one day. 4. An additional delivery was established in London, and two were given to some of the suburbs. 5. Colonial and foreign rates for letters were greatly lowered, the inland rates--viz. the rates paid for those letters passing through this country--being abandoned altogether in some cases, as Mr. Hill had recommended. 6. The privilege of franking, private and official, was abolished, and low charges made for the transmission of parliamentary papers. 7. Arrangements were made for the registration of letters. 8. The Money-order Office was rendered available to a fourfold extent. And-- 9. The number of letters increased from 75 millions in 1838-9, to 219 millions in 1842-3.[115]