The post office and its story an interesting account of the activities of a great government department

Consols— Popularisation of, 140 Amount held in Post Office, 141 Facilities for purchase, 141 Reduction of interest on, 143 Constantinople, 84, 130, 328 Continental Mail, 75, 222 Cooke, 155 Cornwall, 75 Cowper, William, 21 “Creed” system, 155, 166 Crimean War, 130 Cuba, 328 Cunard Company, 212 Daily Mail, 108, 193 Daily Telegraph, 245 Date stamping, 61 David Copperfield, 281 Dead Letter Office, 109, 118 Deal, 33 Denmark, 328 De Quincey, Thomas, 28, 102 De Saint Marceaux, 230 Diamond Jubilee Reforms, 84, 246, 258 Dickens, Charles, 28 Dickson, Mrs. Elizabeth, 314 Dieppe, 220 Dockree support system, 88 Dockwra, 35, 290 Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella, 210 Dover, 220 Dover Road, 19, 208 Dryden, 45 Dublin, 218 Duncan, Rev. Henry, 138 Dunfermline, 287 Eastbourne, 284 East India Company, 247 Edinburgh, 23, 32, 36 Edinburgh Castle, 216 Edison Telephone Company, 183, 184 Egypt, 84, 215, 336 Electric stamping machines, 61 Electric Telegraph Company, 161 Elephant as carrier of mails, 246, 249 Engineer-in-Chief, 267 Engineers, 195, 196 Enniskillen, 284 Etruria, 213 Euston, 72, 74, 80, 89 Exchange Telegraph Company, 165 Exeter, 25 Express Delivery Service, 96, 323 Factories (see Post Office Factories) Fair Isle, 220 Fair Wages Resolution, 206 Falkland Islands, 328 Falmouth— As packet station, 209 100 years ago, 210 P. and O. service, 214 Farmers' telephones, 193 Fawcett, Right Hon. H., 85, 262 Ferry mail services, 81 Fiji Islands, 216 Fishguard, 217 “Fleece Tavern,” 44 Flushing, 75, 220 Flying Coaches, 22 Folkestone, 75, 220 Foot posts, 21 Foreign Parcel Post, articles refused, 328