Category: History - Other
The following pages give some particulars of the changes that have taken place in the Post Office service during the past hundred years; and the matter may prove interesting, not only on account of the changes themselves, but in respect of the influence which the growing usefu...
A melancholy result followed upon a worthy endeavour to carry the mails through the snow on the 1st February 1831. The Dumfries coach had reached Moffat, where it became snowed...
2. Chapter 2Dr. James Russell, in his _Reminiscences of Yarrow_, describes how tardy and uncertain the mail service by post was in the early years of the present century; and what he says i...
5. Chapter 5The failures or delays in making the passage across the Channel are thus described by Cleland in his _Annals of Glasgow_: "It frequently happens," says he, "that the mail packet...
1. Chapter 1The following pages give some particulars of the changes that have taken place in the Post Office service during the past hundred years; and the matter may prove interesting, no...
6. Chapter 6A century ago, and indeed down to a period only fifty years ago, the world, looked at from the present vantage-ground, must appear to have been in a dull, lethargic state, with...
4. Chapter 4One of the changes that time and circumstances have brought into the postal service is this, that the country post-offices have passed out of the hands of innkeepers, and into t...