The Finance of Cheap Postage: From Hunt's Merchants' Magazine for Obtober [sic.], 1849G.W. Wood, 1849 - 7 էջ |
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... carry- ing newspapers . Years . Government postage . Railway service . Packet service . Newspaper stamps . 1839 .. £ 44,277 1840 .. 90,761 £ 51,301 £ 417,744 Duty . 60,932,151 £ 244,416 59,936,000 252,348 1841 .. 113,255 94,818 473,068 ...
... carry- ing newspapers . Years . Government postage . Railway service . Packet service . Newspaper stamps . 1839 .. £ 44,277 1840 .. 90,761 £ 51,301 £ 417,744 Duty . 60,932,151 £ 244,416 59,936,000 252,348 1841 .. 113,255 94,818 473,068 ...
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... carrying mails . The increase of letters from 1842 , the last return made under the old postage , to 1847 , the first return under the reduced postage , is 138 per cent . How full of encouragement ! In 1837 , the number of letters ...
... carrying mails . The increase of letters from 1842 , the last return made under the old postage , to 1847 , the first return under the reduced postage , is 138 per cent . How full of encouragement ! In 1837 , the number of letters ...
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... carried , is matter of small consequence . Ten letters carried a hundred miles may cost the government a dollar per letter ; when 10,000 letters could be carried the same distance , and the transporta- tion cost only one mill per letter ...
... carried , is matter of small consequence . Ten letters carried a hundred miles may cost the government a dollar per letter ; when 10,000 letters could be carried the same distance , and the transporta- tion cost only one mill per letter ...
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... carried for six cents , the reduction to five cents was too trifling to produce any considerable effect in increasing the number sent . And yet the results of the act of 1845 all go to confirm the soundness of Rowland Hill's principles ...
... carried for six cents , the reduction to five cents was too trifling to produce any considerable effect in increasing the number sent . And yet the results of the act of 1845 all go to confirm the soundness of Rowland Hill's principles ...
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... department . Yet Congress has carried them from one end of the country to the other , and the sole reason has been , that by this liberality , the government could " facilitate intercourse among the States . " Rowland Hill's system itself.
... department . Yet Congress has carried them from one end of the country to the other , and the sole reason has been , that by this liberality , the government could " facilitate intercourse among the States . " Rowland Hill's system itself.
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adoption advancement of society ALPHEUS FELCH amount average Benefits of Cheap BOSTON CHEAP POSTAGE Britain British post-office cent charged CHEAP POSTAGE ASSOCIATION citizens clerk correspondence cost of management cost of transportation Cost per letter delivery documents drop letters effect England English post-office ESTABLISH CHEAP POSTAGE facilitate intercourse fact farthing per letter FINANCE OF CHEAP franking privilege friends of cheap government postage gross receipts increase of letters JOSHUA LEAVITT less letter box letter postage letters deposited mails from Boston Major Hobbie miles million of dollars mind MORAL AND SOCIAL newspaper postage Newspaper stamps number of letters object old postage old system packet service Penny Post post-of postage on letters postage stamps Postmaster Postmaster-General prepaid prepayment present number public accommodation railroad railway conveyance rate of postage receive reduced postage require revenue Rowland Hill's system Social Benefits stamps sub-post-offices system of cheap tion whole cost York
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Էջ 9 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Էջ 9 - ... as of the. palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alientate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Էջ 4 - English system, made in 1848. lie then took the ground, that, considering the vastness of our territory, and the magnitude of our system of mails, and the still greater extent to which they must be carried, three cents here will be a cheaper rate, in comparison to service performed, than in England. If, then, the two systems can sustain themselves in the proportion of three to two, as supposed by Major...
Էջ 10 - Our post-office army is now made up of a General, three Majors, and 20,000 privates, each one of the latter being in direct correspondence with the Chief. No service can be made effective under an organization so defective and unbusiness like. A district deputy, with a proper force of assistants, would have, in effect, a personal supervision of the whole work. It would involve some additional expense, but at the same time it would greatly simplify the work, and reduce the labor and cost of the general...
Էջ 8 - First of the dynamics of this mind-machinery of popular opinion, planted in * a little upper room," and opened upon the Legislature of the greatest empire in the world, was the PENNY POST. For the six months' " agitation " of the national mind, which the Peace Congress Committee had originated and conducted, in favor of the measure to be brought forward by Mr. Cobden, the Penny Post had been plied with unremitting activity. Nearly 50,000 letters, and other missiles, in manuscript or lithograph, had...
Էջ 9 - ... which the press echoed and re-echoed among the populations far and near. Thus, one hundred and fifty assemblies of the people, from Land's End to John O'Groat's, embracing the active minds of as many communities, had thrown into the gathering tide of public opinion the force of their sympathies. And the great meeting in Exeter Hall was to give a great voice to these convictions and sympathies of the people, and to speak to Parliament the last words of the nation in favor of the measure to be...
Էջ 11 - A member, on learning the number and description of documents allotted to his disposal, would have nothing more to do but to hand to the proper clerk a list of names to whom they should be forwarded, and they would be directed and sent, the whole being weighed at the post-office, and the postage charged to the blouse fund.
Էջ 5 - The n«t revenue for the year ending October 5th, 1849, is £60,000 above that of last year, a proof that the rate is not too high. The profits which, with good management, cannot fail to accrue, will be well employed in increasing the public accomodation by the mail. Let us now suppose the cheap postage law passed, and that the Department has fully impregnated itself with the ruling idea...
Էջ 12 - Ireland together, with 11,000,000 of inhabitants, send 57,000,000 ; only 5,000,000 less than the number we have reached in the fourth year of our reduced postage. Does any sensible man, who is acquainted with the working of cheap postage in Great Britain, entertain a doubt that this system is to be adopted here ? Nothing short of it can satisfy the reasonable demands of the peoS'e.