Her Majesty's Mails. A history of the Post Office and an Industrial Account of its Present Condition

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First published 1864. Published as part of a planned series 'to do for the great governmental industries what Mr Smiles has so ably done ... for the profession of civil engineering and several national industries'. Structured in two parts: Part 1] 'The history of the Post Office': 'On early postal communications'; 'Our post communications prior to the establishment of the Post Office'; 'The rise of the General Post Office'; 'The Post Office in England and the sister countries up to the end of the seventeenth century'; 'Old roads and slow coaches'; 'The settlement of the Post Office'; 'Ralph Allen and cross-posts in England and James Anderson and horse-posts in Scotland, 1715 to 1760'; 'Palmer and the mail coach era'; 'The transition period at the Post Office'; 'Sir Rowland Hill an Penny Postage'; 'Early results of the Penny Postage Scheme'; 'The Letter-Opening Committee of 1844 and the Commission on Sundry Labour at the Post Office in 1849'; 'The development of the Post Office'; Part 2] 'The industrial development of the Post Office': 'Prefatory'; 'The organisation of the Post Office'; 'On the circulation of letters'; 'On postage stamps'; 'Post Office Savings Bank and government insurances and annuities'.