The Post Office and Its Story
by Edward Bennett
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bennett, Edward, 1858?-
- Title
- The post office and its story : an interesting account of the activities of a great government department
- Credits
- Produced by KD Weeks, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Postal service -- Great Britain -- History
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 55685
- Release Date
- October 6, 2017
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE POST OFFICE & ITS STORY
- 2.AUTHOR'S NOTE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I POSTBOYS AND MAIL COACHES
- 6.CHAPTER II THE PENNY POST
- 7.CHAPTER III LOMBARD STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S LE GRAND
- 8.CHAPTER IV KING EDWARD'S BUILDING
- 9.CHAPTER V THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICE
- 10.CHAPTER VI THE PARCEL POST
- 11.CHAPTER VII MOTOR MAILS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII THE UNDELIVERED POSTAL PACKET
- 13.CHAPTER IX MONEY ORDERS AND POSTAL ORDERS
- 14.CHAPTER X THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK
- 15.CHAPTER XI THE TELEGRAPH
- 16.CHAPTER XII THE TELEGRAPH ( continued )
- 17.CHAPTER XIII THE TELEPHONE
- 18.CHAPTER XIV ENGINEERS, STORES AND FACTORIES
- 19.CHAPTER XV OCEAN MAILS
- 20.CHAPTER XVI THE POSTAL UNION
- 21.CHAPTER XVII CONCERNING FOREIGN POST OFFICES
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII THE POST OFFICES OF THE EMPIRE
- 23.CHAPTER XIX THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL AND THE PERMANENT STAFF
- 24.CHAPTER XX THE HEAD POSTMASTER
- 25.CHAPTER XXI THE VILLAGE POST OFFICE
- 26.CHAPTER XXII THE POSTMAN
- 27.CHAPTER XXIII THE POST OFFICE GUIDE
- 28.CHAPTER XXIV OLD AGE PENSIONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES OF THE POST OFFICE
- 29.INDEX
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