# The post office and its story

Author: Bennett, Edward, 1858?-

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55685

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+post+office+and+its+story+Bennett&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A schoolboy who was given the task of writing an essay on the Post Office used these words: “The Post Office contains the whole world's circumstances, or welfare, day after day, as a mother shuts all her chickens under her wings. A man would not reveal his very secreate words to his wife or to any one, but he trusts them to a weak envelope in the Post Office.” This boy was perhaps wiser than he knew. For there is no institution existing in the country which comes so near to the hearts and homes of the British people as the General Post Office. Created primarily for the despatch and delivery of letters, it has developed into a vast organisation which is at once the carrier of the people's...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-post-office-and-its-story-55685/chapters/16/index.md)