The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical Study

And as the Master-piece of all those good regulations, established by the present Post-Master-General, for the better Government of the said Office, he hath annexed and appropri...

Wee have Considered of the severall rates mentioned in Mr. Hamiltons Memoriall for the Inland Post of letters between one place & an other in America and are humbly of opinion s...

[574] "Une partie des pays qui out pris part au Congr[e']s de Berne avait fix['e] le maximum du poids des lettres [a'] 250 grammes; l'autre partie n'avait fix['e] aucune limite...

With the exception of the name and address of the addressee no writing was permitted on these packets, but by the order of the 29th May 1848 the writing of the name and address...

For the inland posts the financial arrangements of 1603 remained some thirty years undisturbed, and notwithstanding that the posts were used by travellers, and for the general c...

"En cons['e]quence, si vous r['e]partissez les 30 millions ou 35 millions, si vous voulez, sur les trois services, vous verrez qu'il ne faut pas mettre au compte des lettres plu...

[314] "Already they found a tax proposed on every poor man who took a newspaper for the information of his family; a stamp tax, an impost unknown in the Maritime Provinces, and...

The reform, which took effect on the 1st January 1849, was much less sweeping than the reform of 1840 in England--the initial rate was 20 centimes, corresponding to a twopenny r...

The contracting parties undertook to provide a mutual service for the interchange of parcels not exceeding 3 kilogrammes in weight. Liberty of transit was guaranteed throughout...

[274] "Sir Francis Freeling states that he succeeds to the enjoyment of the privilege of franking which had previously appertained to the situation of the Comptroller of the Inl...

Neale was required by the terms of his patent to render an account at the end of three years of the receipts and expenditures of the American post. His first account was not, ho...

This was the system, due to Sir Rowland Hill, of uniform rates, irrespective of distance of transmission, first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1839, and since adopted throu...

[700] "The advantage of Imperial unity, which was held in 1898 to justify the sacrifice of revenue incidental to a measure calculated to bind together the United Kingdom and her...

But the rates were not revised. Revision in an upward direction was, indeed, hardly feasible. The public agitation for low rates continued after the passing of the Act of 1845....

The Marquess of Hartington asked that the motion should not be pressed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer told the House that he had not got [L]300,000 to give away. Mr. Gladstone...

During the period of free transmission, which continued some seventeen years, the number and gross weight of newspapers sent through the post increased enormously, and the privi...

The parcel post was, of course, as likely in 1912 to prove a blow to the express companies as in the earlier years when they had so strongly resisted any proposal for its introd...

This became a recognized practice before the end of the seventeenth century, and the privilege was regarded as forming part of the ordinary emoluments of the deputy-postmasters....

For many years, however, a strong feeling in favour of a parcel post system existed, especially among the farmers of the West; and with the establishment of a service in the Uni...

Each contracting State should fix its own international rates, under the limitation that for letters the rate should not exceed 4d., or 40 centimes; and for newspapers or other...

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Couriers received fixed wages, which were either paid by the Deputy Postmaster-General out of the general funds of the department, or from grants in aid, given by the Legislatur...

The other recommendation of the Penrose-Overstreet Commission, viz. that further statistics should be obtained with regard to second-class matter, was also adopted by Congress,...

An Act of 1805[547] imposed an additional charge of 1d., making 3d. in all, on letters sent by the twopenny post and not passing by the General Post, directed to or sent from pl...

A Ship Letter Office was opened on the 10th September 1799. No vessel was allowed to make entry or break bulk until letters brought by it had been handed over to the Post Office...

The Post Office could not, however, in establishing a parcel post service, act as freely as in its arrangements for the conduct of the letter service. The conveyance of the parc...

Letter postage was found to be high for the formal documents of commerce, and from very early times there has been a disposition to accord an exceptionally low rate to such docu...

In the first place, a certen office or compting house to be by his Ma^{tie} appointed w^{th}in the cittie of London, of purpose for carrying out & receiving in of all L[~r]es to...

By abolishing the monopoly once enjoyed by the Clerks in the Offices of the Secretaries of State, and the Clerks of the Roads in this Office, permitting the Public to send and r...

Merchants' and manufacturers' samples are not, of course, strictly speaking, of the nature of correspondence, and their conveyance by post represents in some aspects an expansio...

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[630] This definition indicates the strict nature of "forward" packets. In practice it is, however, impracticable to divide postal packets precisely on these lines, and the actu...

The raising of the rate led to a large amount of fraud, and caused much public inconvenience. The revenue did, indeed, increase in the first year quite appreciably; but in the s...

Numbers-- 1887. 1900. Per cent. Per cent. Parcels not exceeding 1 kg. in weight 17.158 12.163 " " 1-5 kg. " 62.086 68.874 " " 5-6 kg. " 7.095 7.783 " " 6-7 kg. " 3.984 4.081 " "...

A decree of the 24th November 1860 gave to the two Chambers the constitutional right of discussing the policy of the Government at home and abroad, and as a natural corollary of...

[52] "To give a slight idea of the nature of this conveyance: _The Bye and Way Letters_ were thrown promiscuously together into one large Bag, which was to be opened at every St...

The Act of 1765 provided reduced rates of postage for North America. "The vast accession of territory gained by the late Treaty of Peace," and the establishment of new posts in...

Revenue, net, 16, 22, 31, 35, 58, 63, 71, 76, 80, 83, 87, 89, 91, 94, 99, 100, 104, 105, 109, 253, 314, 353, 355, 358; theoretical character of, 362, 363

"Diese Bestimmung entsprang aus der Erkenntniss, dass die weniger h[:a]ufig erscheinenden Zeitschriften durch die volle Besorgungsgeb[:u]hr von 25 pct. des Verlagspreises um so...

Letter from Postmaster-General submitting a Report giving Results of the Inquiry as to the Operation Receipts and Expenditures of Railroad Companies Transporting the Mails, and...

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The Post Office, moreover, as a public undertaking, cannot bargain freely for special facilities or terms with individuals or firms having large numbers of parcels for delivery...

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For an ordinary letter-- d. Under 1 ounce .382 Over 1 ounce, under 4 ounces .747 Over 4 ounces 1.404 For an average letter packet .457 For a postcard .353 For a halfpenny packet...

"The whole of the receipts from the various sources administered by the Post Office has always been treated in our Public Accounts as 'Non-Tax Revenue.' It is all carried to the...