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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеPART I. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE POST-OFFICE.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II. THE RISE OF THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE.
CHAPTER III. ON OLD ROADS AND SLOW COACHES.
CHAPTER IV. THE SETTLEMENT OF THE POST-OFFICE.
CHAPTER V. PALMER AND THE MAIL-COACH ERA.
CHAPTER VI. THE TRANSITION PERIOD AT THE POST-OFFICE.
CHAPTER VII. SIR ROWLAND HILL AND PENNY POSTAGE.
CHAPTER VIII. EARLY RESULTS OF THE PENNY-POSTAGE SCHEME.
CHAPTER IX. THE POST-OFFICE AND LETTER-OPENING.
CHAPTER X. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POST-OFFICE.
PART II. DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE POST-OFFICE.
CHAPTER I. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE POST-OFFICE.
CHAPTER II. ON THE CIRCULATION OF LETTERS.
CHAPTER III. ON THE MAIL-PACKET SERVICE.
CHAPTER IV. ON POSTAGE-STAMPS.
CHAPTER V. POST-OFFICE SAVINGS' BANKS.
CHAPTER VI. BEING MISCELLANEOUS AND SUGGESTIVE.
APPENDIX (A) . CHIEF OFFICERS OF THE POST-OFFICE
APPENDIX (B) . ABSTRACT OF THE PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS.
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL LETTER-POSTS.
THE "POSTE RESTANTE" AT THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE.
APPENDIX (C) . INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENTS IN THE POST-OFFICE SERVICE.
APPOINTMENTS IN THE CHIEF OFFICE IN LONDON. (Extracted from the Estimates of 1864-5.)
PRINCIPAL APPOINTMENTS IN THE CHIEF OFFICES OF DUBLIN AND EDINBURGH.
INFORMATION RESPECTING OTHER PRINCIPAL PROVINCIAL POST OFFICES.
APPENDIX (F) . CONVEYANCE OF MAILS BY RAILWAY.