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Cheap Postage

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
October
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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A vr 'er in ttie N. Y. Evening Pot. fnrÍBhe-i the following remarka of Rm!] 11, ili'i grca' English idvnc.ite Ol inp Pusltrgp, made at a dinner givcti vjiiiu in Livei'i o.'l : Mf. fliil slnted lliat his dutips in llie wst 'ilBci?. wi'ii! "to advisc tb Poirna ter ' e: era! on all poinlst'i wliich lus Lnlsliii) niight lie pleased to direct his ntienlion, and to curry oui graHuaüy, thp re m un. Ier rF his mvn s'sIpiii of post offio improvpment, of' whicfa the t enny ratr was onlv one feaiurp," and th.il, "iilicmt a general uriderstnruiing to tliis (fiecl, lie should not have feit justifird in accepting office." lie wishcd to convpy to his lieirers some idea of the rmgnimde ol the irstitution. Were he mert-ly t ) .stnlc that so nmny m lüons of leners pnssed through the post office in a jaar, 1,0 one coijld fonn any conception of ihe rfality. Tlie bfst mode probubiy to convey any iiea of the whole, wi-jld he for liiin l desfribfi some pftrt. For inst:ince, when he lelt 'L'indon, he w.is at Ristod Square jrlien the mail was broug-ht in to go by the troin, this bemg onlv ono of tnany which are -geepaiched by roilwnys. Itj was consiiierfd nn exceedingly lighl mail; i bu: ímall ns 1 was, it literal ty filled six laige otnnibuses ; and tlic he:ivy mailforwarded on a Saturd.iy night filled nine iges of a similar de'riioit. - Ag-TÍn, the nnmber of dearl lf-iters, sincp tlie i.dopiion of pie-pavment, liad becowie a verysmall frnction - lesstli.-m tbeitOOth pTit of'ihe whole ; nevertli-lfss, tlie ae■ rge nniount of inonpy l'mind in -uÉh le'ters, iu coin, l.ank untes, and biMs f evc!ir;ge. w.'S L40,000 ppr nDDUui. Mnnv th'ius:inds of pouniis wtr actunllv f niiid in [etters with no address wha'evel1. Perliaps t m'ght )jc n'ercslingi to llio compiny to revert to a few fm:t.s connectcd wilh the ebnnge producid liy the plan of Penny Posiage. Immédintelv before the inlroduction. of thp redu-ed rate of posloge the tiumber sf chargeable letters - not inckiHiiie franks - delivered. nmounted to 75,000,000 innually ; last ycar it noiounted to 299,500,000, or to four-fold the original number. It wonld require somcthing more ihan ihat to Uring the post office revenue up to the former gross amount ; but less than fivp-fuld would effect that object. At the present moment ihe number of let Iers delivered in the Loudon district. comirsing a circIp of n nidias if 12 mik-s round ihe ot office n St. Martin's-le-Grdfld, wns quitp as great as tliat which under the old systPm was deüvered in the whole Utiite:l Kingdom. The increase wns rnpidlr going on, and amounipd to 28.000.000 morf la-t year as -ompared wilh the previoua yenr. It was the opinión of man y geni'eren iha; the introriuctiun of the péfnnv ;iif:iensed the difficully "f efTcciin); improvpmpiits. It was snid thoy roulri afTird to givp cheapfr postngn nnrl eater fpcilnies n!so ; but, in fait, improvements had foll .wed one another moie r.-ipidly since the penny 'stage cmne into Operation than hefore. WIipii the plan was first propuspd, the largp towns lind only a single mail counseling thain wi'h Loudon ; nw thpy Hae two m-ilg per riay. Again : In Englnnd nnd Vnles tliere were formerlv only 2 OOlt pot offifp.s oí every kind ; novv there were 4,000.

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