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POST OFFICE REFORM;

its

IMPORTANCE

and

P R A C T I C A B I L I T Y.

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BY ROWLAND HILL.

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"The facility of frequent, punctual, and quick communication, which the Institution of the Post Office was calculated to secure, may be justly classed among the elements of profitable commerce It is essential to the purposes of government, and subservient to all the ends of national policy."

Eighteenth Report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, 1829.

"The principle of the Post Office at its establishment, as is distinctly laid down in the 12th Charles II., was to afford advantage to trade and commerce. The direct revenue to be derived from the Post Office was not the primary consideration."

Report on the Post Office by Lord Lowther.

"We have sufficiently informed ourselves on this subject to be satisfied that an alteration in the present system is absolutely necessary."

Fourth Report on the Post Office, by the present Commissioners of Inquiry,

LONDON :

PUBLISHED BY CHARLES KNIGHT AND CO.,

22, LUDGATE STREET.

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1837.