The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago Containing Reprint of Sir Rowland Hills Fa
The Post Office of Fifty Years Ago Containing Reprint of Sir Rowland Hills Fa
Pearson Hill
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Gradually the whole work of making postage stamps for this country and most of its colonies has been entrusted to the latter firm. 2 19 THE POST OFFICl'; OF FIFTY YEARS AGO. stamp for his reply. The fact that the postman had to collect the postage on delivery was also regarded as affording almost the only security that letters sent by post would ever reach their destination. In Sir 11. Hill's pamphlet it was found necessary to deal with this supposed dijficulty at considerable length. (See Appe...ndix, p. 9G. ) The great reduction of postage, however, reconciled the public to the change. Under the old postal system, to have attempted to secure prepayment, especially b}^ means of stamps, would have been hopeless and objectless ; yet many persons, trusting to their supposed recollection, have from time to time come forward to assert that they had suggested postage stamps long before Sir liowland Hill's reforms gave the oj)ening for them. Possibly they also believe they suggested first-class return tickets before railways were invented.
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