Her Majesty's Mails

6. Increased security in the transmission of valuable letters afforded, and temptation to the letter-carriers and others greatly diminished, by reducing the registration fee from 1s. to 4d., by making registration of letters containing coin compulsory, and by other means. 7. A reduction to about one-third in the cost--including postage--of money-orders, combined with a great extension and improvement of the system. 8. More frequent and more rapid communication between the metropolis and the larger provincial towns, as also between one provincial town and another. 9. A vast extension of the rural distribution--many thousands of places, and probably some millions of inhabitants, having, for the first time, been included within the postal system. 10. A great extension of free deliveries. Before the adoption of penny postage many considerable towns, and portions of nearly all the larger towns, had either no delivery at all, or deliveries on condition of an extra charge. 11. Greatly increased facilities afforded for the transmission of foreign and colonial correspondence, by improved treaties with foreign countries, by a better arrangement of the packet service, by sorting on board, and other means. 12. A more prompt despatch of letters when posted, and a more prompt delivery on arrival. 13. The division of London and its suburbs into ten postal districts, by which, and other measures, communication within the twelve-miles circle has been greatly facilitated, and the most important delivery of the day has, generally speaking, been accelerated as much as two hours. 14. Concurrently with these improvements, the condition of the employés has been materially improved; their labours, especially on the Sunday, having been very generally reduced, their salaries increased, their chances of promotion augmented, and other important advantages afforded them.