Her Majesty's Mails

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Author

Lewins, William

Title

Her Majesty's Mails An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-Office

Credits

E-text prepared by Adrian Mastronardi, Paul Clark, The Philatelic Digital Library Project ( www.tpdlp.net), and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries ( archive.org/details/toronto)

Language

English

LoC Class

HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications

Subject

Postal service -- Great Britain

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42129

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42129

Release Date

February 18, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HER MAJESTY'S MAILS :
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.PART I. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE POST-OFFICE.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.CHAPTER II. THE RISE OF THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.CHAPTER III. ON OLD ROADS AND SLOW COACHES. — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE POST-OFFICE. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER V. PALMER AND THE MAIL-COACH ERA. — FOOTNOTES:
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. THE TRANSITION PERIOD AT THE POST-OFFICE. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. SIR ROWLAND HILL AND PENNY POSTAGE. — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. EARLY RESULTS OF THE PENNY-POSTAGE SCHEME. — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. THE POST-OFFICE AND LETTER-OPENING. — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.CHAPTER X. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POST-OFFICE. — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.PART II. DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE POST-OFFICE.
16. 16.PREFATORY.
17. 17.CHAPTER I. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE POST-OFFICE. — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.CHAPTER II. ON THE CIRCULATION OF LETTERS. — THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. — THE BLIND LETTER-OFFICE — THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE. — THE TRAVELLING POST-OFFICE. — A PROVINCIAL POST-OFFICE. — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.CHAPTER III. ON THE MAIL-PACKET SERVICE. — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.CHAPTER IV. ON POSTAGE-STAMPS. — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.CHAPTER V. POST-OFFICE SAVINGS' BANKS. — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.CHAPTER VI. BEING MISCELLANEOUS AND SUGGESTIVE. — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER VII. CONCERNING SOME OF THE POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS AND MISREPRESENTATIONS TO WHICH THE POST-OFFICE IS LIABLE. — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.APPENDIX (A). CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE POST-OFFICE — ENGLAND. — Post-Office District Surveyors. — IRELAND. — SCOTLAND.
25. 25.APPENDIX (B). ABSTRACT OF THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS. — THE LETTER-POST. — REGISTERED LETTERS. — FOREIGN AND COLONIAL LETTER-POSTS. — NEWSPAPER POSTS. — PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. — THE BOOK-POST. — THE PATTERN-POST. — MONEY-ORDERS. — POST-OFFICE SAVINGS BANKS. — MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS. — LONDON DISTRICT POSTS. — THE "POSTE RESTANTE" AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. — FOOTNOTES:
26. 26.APPENDIX (C). INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENTS IN THE POST-OFFICE SERVICE. — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.APPENDIX (D). — APPOINTMENTS IN THE CHIEF OFFICE IN LONDON. ( Extracted from the Estimates of 1864-5. ) — PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENTS IN THE CHIEF OFFICES OF DUBLIN AND EDINBURGH. — APPOINTMENTS, WITH SALARIES, OF THE FIVE PRINCIPAL PROVINCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. — INFORMATION RESPECTING OTHER PRINCIPAL PROVINCIAL POST OFFICES. — FOOTNOTES:
28. 28.APPENDIX (E). — FOOTNOTES:
29. 29.APPENDIX (F). CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAILWAY.
30. 30.APPENDIX (G). MANUFACTURE OF POSTAGE-LABELS AND ENVELOPES.
31. 31.APPENDIX (H). — RESULTS OF POSTAL REFORM. — RESULTS. — FOOTNOTES:

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