item: #1 of 19
          id: 19414
      author: Campbell, Alexander
       title: General Instructions for the Guidance of Post Office Inspectors in the Dominion of Canada
        date: None
       words: 10629
      flesch: 69
     summary: All printing and binding required both by your own office and city or other offices must be done on requisition to the Department, at Ottawa. 3. Allowances for forward duty are made to Postmasters who are required to re-mail letters and papers for and from other offices.
    keywords: book; cases; general; letters; mail; month; office; postmaster; service
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        item: #2 of 19
          id: 20702
      author: MacQueen, James
       title: A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World
        date: None
       words: 45230
      flesch: 63
     summary: Expenditure by Steam Power, &c._ (p. 072) --------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+------+------- | |Provi- | | | | | |Number Number | Fixed | sions |Tons of| Price |Cost of| Total |Number| of of |Capital|Wages, | Coals | Coals | Coals |Expendi-| of |Sailing Station.| re- | &c. |Yearly.| per |Yearly.| ture |Steam-| Ves- |quired.|Yearly.| | ton. | ets.
    keywords: barbadoes; cape; coals; communication; days; falmouth; fayal; great; jamaica; mails; miles; new; packet; point; return; steamers; time; west; | |; ° w.
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        item: #3 of 19
          id: 21693
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Post Haste
        date: None
       words: 94290
      flesch: 78
     summary: One evening Miss Gentle and rotund little Mr Blurt were seated on two camp-stools near the stern, conversing occasionally and gazing in a dreamy frame of mind at the milky-way over which they appeared to travel. Why, you've hurt your face, Mr Aspel, he exclaimed, turning his friend to the light.
    keywords: aspel; blurt; bones; boy; bright; business; child; course; day; dear; door; evening; eyes; face; father; friend; george; good; hand; having; head; home; james; lady; left; letter; life; like; lillycrop; london; look; mail; man; maylands; men; mind; miss; miss lillycrop; moment; mother; mr blurt; mrs; night; office; old; pax; people; phil; poor; post; room; round; shop; sir; solomon; stivergill; tell; things; think; time; tottie; way; woman; work
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        item: #4 of 19
          id: 22812
      author: Blossom, Thomas
       title: The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo
        date: None
       words: 6740
      flesch: 61
     summary: In that year partial arrangements for mail service in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts were made by the Provincial Congress of each of those Colonies. The Articles of Confederation, adopted in 1778, gave to the United States, in Congress assembled, the sole and extensive right and power of establishing and regulating post-offices from one State to another; but the increase of mail service was comparatively trifling until after the organization of the Post-office Department by the first Congress which assembled under the Constitution of the United States.
    keywords: buffalo; canandaigua; cents; general; letter; mail; new; office; post; service; york
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        item: #5 of 19
          id: 27688
      author: Hyde, James Wilson
       title: A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee Retrospect
        date: None
       words: 24270
      flesch: 65
     summary: An analysis of the London to Edinburgh mail of the 2d March 1838 gives the following figures; and let it not be forgotten that in these days the Edinburgh mail contained the correspondence for a large part of Scotland:-- 2296 Newspapers, weighing 273 lbs., and going free. Looking at the regulations of 1823, we find that each Member of Parliament was permitted to receive as many as fifteen and to send as many as ten letters in each day, such letters not exceeding one ounce in weight.
    keywords: business; century; coach; country; day; edinburgh; following; glasgow; great; guard; horses; letters; london; mail; man; men; news; number; office; passengers; penny; period; place; post; post office; postage; present; public; service; time; way; year; | |
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        item: #6 of 19
          id: 28533
      author: Tombs, Robert Charles
       title: The King's Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time
        date: None
       words: 47114
      flesch: 66
     summary: That a Bristol Post-house existed early in the reign of King Charles II. is indicated by a letter preserved at the Bristol Museum Library, which was sent in August of 1662 from Oxford, and is addressed: This to be left at the Post-house in Bristol for my honoured landlord, Thomas Gore, Esquire, living at Barrow in Somerset. Indeed, the first traceable illustration of a Bristol Post Office is the engraving, a copy of which is here reproduced, depicting the building erected in 1750, at the corner of the Exchange Avenue as it appeared in 1805, when it was described as a handsome freestone building, situated on the west side of the Exchange, to which it forms a side wing, projecting some feet forward in the street; on the east side being another building answerable thereto.
    keywords: a.m.; allen; bath; bristol; bristol mail; bristol post; bush; chapter; city; coach; coaches; company; day; days; elton; evening; following; freeling; gate; general; guard; hill; hours; house; illustration; inn; john; king; letters; lion; london; mail; mail coach; majesty; miles; morning; new; night; o'clock; p.m.; palmer; period; place; portsmouth; post coach; post office; postal; postmaster; posts; present; public; railway; road; royal; service; sir; street; time; turnpike; weeks; west; white; years; | |
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        item: #7 of 19
          id: 34197
      author: Tombs, Robert Charles
       title: The Bristol Royal Mail: Post, Telegraph, and Telephone
        date: None
       words: 56232
      flesch: 63
     summary: He well recollects the night, and what impressed it upon his memory more than anything else was the fact that on reaching Bristol, after he and his two subordinate clerks and his mail-guard (Samuel Bennett) had made almost superhuman efforts to get the work completed, he had to send 13,000 letters unsorted into the Bristol Post Office, there to await despatch by day mails to towns in the West of England, instead of going at once in direct travelling Post Office bags by the connecting early morning train. In 1855 the Bristol Post Office staff consisted of a postmaster and fifteen clerks, with sixty-four letter carriers.
    keywords: bags; bath; bristol district; bristol mail; bristol office; bristol post; building; business; chapter; christmas; city; coach; coaches; country; day; days; delivery; general; good; half; head office; hours; house; letter office; letters; london; london mail; mail; mail coach; means; miles; morning; new; night; number; office service; offices; order; penny; place; post office; postage; postal; postmaster; postmen; present; public; railway; road; service; sir; site; street; sub; system; telegraph; telegraph office; time; town; train; way; western; work; years
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        item: #8 of 19
          id: 37238
      author: Smith, William
       title: The History of the Post Office in British North America
        date: None
       words: 148182
      flesch: 55
     summary: Canada invited to join imperial scheme for colonial service, 284; objections of Canada, 285; beginnings of, 286; contract made with Hugh Allan, 286; comparison in speed of Canadian, Cunard and Collins lines, 287; unfriendly attitude of British government towards Canadian line, 287; views of Canadian government on this attitude, 289; negotiations for employment of Canadian steamers for conveyance of British and United States mails, 290; favourable treatment accorded to Cunard line, 292; report of select committee of house of commons, on steamship service, 293; partiality to Galway line at expense of Canadian and Inman lines, 295; condemnation of government of Great Britain by select committee of house of commons, 297; disingenuous conduct of British government towards postmaster general of Canada, 297; weekly service of steamers between Quebec and Liverpool, 302; postmaster general of Canada negotiates with governments of Great Britain and France for use of improved facilities, 302; and with governments of France, Belgium and Prussia, 304; difficulties owing to hostility of general post office, 304; great proportion of mails between Canada and Great Britain carried by Canadian line, 307; series of disasters to steamships of Canadian line, 308-313; parliamentary investigation, 310; new contract with Allans, 314 United States Post Office, postal convention with, 90; goodwill of, towards communication between Canada and Great Britain, 120; cordial relations with, 283; convention of 1848 with, 283; its services utilized for conveyance of mails to Maritime provinces, 280, to Manitoba, 322, to British Columbia, 323; dependence on, for interprovincial correspondence, 327 Universal Postal Union, Canada becomes member of, 329; beneficent results of, 329 Upper Canada, opening of post offices in, 89; Simcoe's plan for separate post office department in, 92; regular mail service established in, 99; arrangement between Amherstburg and Niagara, 101; increased service to, 102, 104; deputy postmaster general recommended for, 104; difficulties of correspondence in, 105; postal conditions in, in 1824, 132; legislature begins agitation for improvements, 133; exorbitant charges on letters circulating in, 133, 134; protest of legislature, 134; raises question of legality of imperial control of Canadian postal system, 135; report of assembly on subject, 136; report of committee of assembly in 1825, 143; recommendation that postal system should be controlled by province, 144; lieutenant governor opposes pretentions of legislature, 145; report of assembly in 1829, 156; proposition for high administrative officer in, 156, 157; continues agitation against postal administration, 163; legislature rejects imperial act respecting disposition of surplus revenues, 193; lack of postal facilities in, 195; legislative assembly of, draw up scheme for provincial post office, 203; report of legislative council on post office, 207; address to King on post office, 208; legislature passes franking act, 209; legislature demands surplus revenue, 211; time occupied in conveying British mails to, by Halifax and by New York, 221 Victoria, British Columbia, extreme isolation of, 323 Viger, Denis Benjamin, interviewed Colonial Secretary respecting postal affairs, 167 Virginia, proposition to establish post office in, 4; rates of postage to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, 10; proceedings of legislature respecting establishment of post office, 12; early arrangements, 13; efforts to attach to colonial system, 22; frustration of scheme to impose act of 1710 in, 23; included in colonial system, 24 Way Offices, a peculiarity of Maritime provinces, 248; explained, 249 West Indies, packet boats established between Great Britain and, 31; large postal revenues of, 31; packet service restored, 34 Windsor, Nova Scotia, post office opened in, 178 Wolfville, post office opened under name of Horton, 178 Woodgate, Arthur, succeeds Howe as deputy postmaster general of Nova Scotia, 252 York, first post office at, 94 York, Duke of, claim of, on American postal revenues, 7 Young, William, confers with general post office respecting Nova Scotia post office, 191 * in disfavour with governor, 98; altercation with Sir Gordon Drummond, 109; retirement, 113 Heyman, Peter, appointed postmaster of Virginia, 13 Horton, post office opened in, 178 Howard, James, dismissed from postmastership of Toronto, on charge of disloyalty, 214 Howe, John, the elder, deputy postmaster general of Maritime provinces, 180; his capable management, 180; his retirement, 181 Howe, John, the younger, succeeds his father, 181; controlled majority of newspapers in Halifax, 187; criticism of, 251; his death, 251 Howe, Joseph, urges direct steamship service between Great Britain and Halifax, 217 Hudson's Bay Company, conveys the mails to and from Manitoba and North-West territories, 317; limitations on correspondence, 318 Hull, post office opened at, 116 Humboldt steamship of the American line lost off Nova Scotia coast, 309 Hume, Joseph, M.P., obtains information respecting Canadian postal service, 161 Hungarian steamship of Allan line wrecked, 309 Hunter, Peter, Lieutenant Governor, had road constructed from Bay of Quinte to York, 100; endeavours to secure mail service to Upper Canada, 100 Hunter, William, joint deputy postmaster general, 26 Huntingdon, Herbert, confers with general post office respecting Nova Scotia post office, 191 Illegal conveyance of letters in Canada, 150; in Nova Scotia, 249; in New Brunswick, 256 Indian steamship of Allan line wrecked, 309 Johnston, J. W., Solicitor General of Nova Scotia, representative at postal conference in Montreal, 268 Kennebec route, Finlay explores, 47 Kingston, Upper Canada, post office opened at, 89 Kingston, New Brunswick, post office opened at, 182 Knox, William, scheme of communications between England and North America, 87 Labrador, mail service opened between Newfoundland and, 342 Lachine, post office opened at, 89 Lancaster, post office opened at, 89 Lanoullier, Nicholas, obtained privilege to establish post office in Canada, 40; his plans, 41; failure, 41 Lanoullier de Boisclair, his difficulties in maintaining roads, owing to popular indifference, 78; his death, 78 Letters, mode of calculating postage on, 20 Lloydtown, postmaster of, dismissed for part in affairs of 1837, 213 London, post office opened at, 117 Lovelace, Francis, Governor of New York, arranged for postal service between New York and Boston, 6 Lower Canada, condition of route between Montreal and Quebec, in 1783, 78; mode of communication with Great Britain, 105; frequency of service between Quebec and Montreal, 105, 109; report of assembly on surplus postal revenues, 1827, 149; Stayner declines to give information to committee of assembly, 161; lack of postal accommodation in, 161, 196; address of assembly to King respecting post office, 163; report of legislative committee on postal affairs, 1836, 199;
    keywords: american post; arrangements; assembly; britain; british post; canada; canadian; charge; colonial; colonies; committee; communication; conveyance; correspondence; country; course; deputy postmaster; england; finlay; government; governor general; great; halifax; halifax post; john; legislature; letters; line; lower; mail service; mails; means; miles; montreal; new; new england; new york; newspapers; north; nova; office act; office department; office revenue; offices; packet; point; post houses; post office; postage; postal; postmaster general; provinces; public; quebec; question; rates; report; revenue; river; route; scotia; secretary; service; states post; stayner; system; time; treasury; united; united states; upper canada; vessels; way; year
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        item: #9 of 19
          id: 38328
      author: Joyce, Herbert
       title: The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
        date: None
       words: 171267
      flesch: 63
     summary: _See_ Postmasters-General, Part III. Crichton, Doctor, refuses to pay his fare by packet, 86 Cromwell, Thomas, Brian Tuke's letter to, on the paucity of the posts, 1 Crosby, Brass, 192 Cross-posts, first post of the kind set up, 57; cross-post letters, definition of the term, 147 Croydon, postmistress of, Auckland's pleasantry on her marriage for the third time, 334 Culverden, captain of packet boat, engages in smuggling, 89 Culvert, member of Parliament, expostulated with as to the irregular use of his frank, 141 _note_ Curtis, Alderman, 274, 275 Customs, Commissioners of, lodge a complaint against the captain of the _Expedition_ packet, 90; represent that smuggling is carried on by packet from Ostend, 103; take proceedings against some of the Harwich packets, 237; are charged by the postmasters-general with unhandsome conduct, 238; seize the Dover mail-coach, 271 Dacre, Lord, superscription on Protector Somerset's letter addressed to, 20 Dartmouth, William, Lord, his attention called to the late arrival at the Post Office of the Court letters, 211 Dashwood, Francis, postmaster-general of Jamaica, exaction from, as a condition of his appointment, 226 Davy, Mrs., her account of the condition of Penzance before 1784, 291 Day, John, sent from London in 1733 to establish a post at Aylsham in Norfolk, his instructions, 167 Dead letters, treatment of, a source of perplexity to Allen, 158; irregular payments claimed under cover of, 236; Dead Letter Office, 307; returned letters charged with postage, 360 Decypherer, the chief, 171 De Joncourt, express clerk, 373 Delivery, claim made by several towns to have their letters delivered free resisted by the Post Office and question tried at law, 197; claim allowed by the Courts, 200; decision carried out grudgingly, 203; hour of delivery of foreign letters in 1790, 267; early, that is preferential, delivery, 342; hour of delivery in St. James's Square between 1820 and 1830, 409; in the country, limits of free delivery not defined, 410; morning delivery in London accelerated, 411; limits of general post delivery fixed at three miles, 417; recommendation of Royal Commission to abolish early or preferential delivery not carried out, 423 Delivery penny, meaning of term, 69 Denmark, Frederick the Second, King of, his letter of complaint to Queen Elizabeth, 8 _note_ De Quester, Matthew, appointed postmaster for foreign parts out of the King's dominions, 10; his appointment offends Lord Stanhope, 10; is superseded by the Privy Council, 12; is restored at the instance of Sir John Coke, 13; assigns his patent, 14 Derby, salary of the postmaster of, in 1792, 293 Dereham, Sir Thomas, Court-post, his duties, 99 Derrick, Samuel, Master of the Ceremonies at Bath, his account of Ralph Allen, 186 _note_ Despatch of mails, hour of, in 1690, 47; and until 1784, 211; indignation caused by the change then made, 220 Devonshire, William, Duke of, course of post between Chesterfield and Manchester altered in 1736 at the instance of, 166 Directories, 195, 309 Distances, inaccuracy of, as computed by the Post Office, 175 Dockwra, William, establishes a penny post in London, 36; his right contested and case decided against him, 40; is granted a pension and, on the penny post being absorbed into the Post Office, is appointed comptroller, 41; is dismissed, 41; provision made by, for the care of general post letters, 68; contrast between Dockwra and Povey, 122 Donlevy, William, 368 Double letter, definition of, 139 Dover, a packet station, 73; packets to Flanders provided by the packet agent, 103; engage in smuggling, 103; and bring news clandestinely, 106; the Dover mail-coach seized by the Customs, 271 Drink and feast money, 50, 232 Dublin, Post Office establishment at, in 1690, 53; penny post proposed at, in 1703, 69; and opened in 1773, 196; the clerks at the castle surrender their franking privilege, 194; the roof of the Dublin Post Office falls in, 207; office in Dublin styled British Mail Office, account of, 367; abuses, 370 Dummer, Edmund, Surveyor of the Navy, builds packets for the Harwich station, 75; also for the West India service, 78; undertakes this service himself, 79; his miscalculations, 79; ill-fortune attends him, 81; his bankruptcy and death, 109 Early, _i.e._ preferential, delivery, 342, 423 Eastbourne, mode of receiving its letters in 1792, 293 East India Company, send to the Post Office letters received at the India House, 311; object to the provisions of the Ship Letter Act, 361; procure its alteration, 362; their generosity, 363; unhandsome return contemplated by the Post Office, 364 East Indies, rates of postage to the, in 1815, 362 Edinburgh, post to, set up by the city of London, 24; Post Office establishment at, in 1707, 117; horse-post between Edinburgh and Glasgow refused by the Treasury, 136; course of post between London and Edinburgh accelerated in 1758, 180; and increased in frequency in 1765, 195; Edinburgh Post Office falls into decay, 207; penny post established at, 300 Eldon, John, Lord, reluctantly assents to the giving of repressive powers, 335 Elections, Parliamentary, Post Office servants prohibited from intermeddling in, 128; and from voting at, 206 Ellenborough, Edward, Lord, 335 Evelyn, Sir John, postmaster-general from 1708 to 1715. Jamaica, Post Office establishment in, and sea rates fixed, 78; duration of voyage to and fro in 1798, 320; House of Assembly vote sum of money in recognition of the gallant defence of the _Antelope_ packet, 323 James, Duke of York, afterwards James II., opposes introduction of the penny post, 37; wrests it out of Dockwra's hands, 40; suffers the clerks of the roads to retain their newspaper privilege, 49 Jamineau, Isaac, purveyor of newspapers to the clerks of the roads, 300 Jeffreys, Sir George, afterwards Lord, inflicts exorbitant fine upon Edmund Prideaux, son of the Master of the Posts, 27 Johnson, Edward, letter-carrier, improves the penny post, 302; is appointed deputy comptroller, 305 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 209 _note_ Jones, distiller of Old Street, St. Luke's, his action against the Post Office, 203 Kent, post through the county of, more carefully nursed than any other, 9 Kenyon, Lloyd, Lord, when Attorney-General, gives receipts for fees in Post Office cases, 325 King's coach, deception practised on Walsingham in the matter of the, 251 King's messengers, their complaint against the Post Office on the erection of milestones, 176 Lambton, John George, moves for a return of the number of Post Office Boards, 396 Lancashire, the badness of its posts in 1699, 60 Le Despencer, Francis, Lord, postmaster-general from 1766 to 1781, 221, 226 Leeds, salary of postmaster in 1792, 293 Lees, Sir John, secretary to the Post Office in Ireland, his testimony to the abuse of franking, 191; having been transferred to the War Office, recapitulates conditions on which he accepts reappointment to the Post Office, 221; recapitulation gives offence to Carteret, 222; and leads to Carteret's exposure, 226 Lees, Sir Edward Smith, son of the preceding, also secretary to the Post Office in Ireland, his method of conducting business, 369; deals in newspapers, 373; his instruction respecting the alphabet, 374; his difference with Freeling, 381; becomes a director of the Dublin Steam Packet Company, 383; is transferred to Edinburgh, 415; his unauthorised surrender of the receiver-general's bond, 415 Leet, express clerk, 373 Leicester, the Corporation of, binds itself to keep post-horses for the use of the Sovereign, 2; salary of postmaster at, in 1792, 293 Leicester, George, Earl of, postmaster-general from 1794 to 1799, 326 Letter-carriers, their pay in 1690, 49; as late as 1772, none employed except in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, 197; are appointed at certain other towns, 202; in London their interests suffer from the earlier closing of the Post Office, 221; are put into uniform, 299; the sufferings of some of their number during the winter of 1794-95, 306; select their walks according to seniority, 324; deliver letters according to classes, one class for general post letters, another for penny or twopenny letters, and a third for foreign letters, 423 Letters, on affairs of State originally sent by courier, 2; particulars of, when sent by post, to be carefully recorded, 4; letters on other than the affairs of State received at the post-houses, 4; not, without the authority of the Master of the Posts, to be collected, carried, or delivered, 6; notice that none are to be sent except through the post served on the merchants of London, 9; letters detected in being illicitly conveyed to be sent to the Privy Council, and their bearers apprehended, 10; what letters excepted from monopoly, 18; are given precedence over travellers, 18; circulate mainly through London, 29; their mode of distribution, 47; clandestine conveyance of, 54; number of penny post letters for the suburbs of London at the end of the seventeenth century, 69; letters for America and Jamaica charged with postage, although there was no packet service, 78; clandestine conveyance of, stimulated by increase of postage, 134; definition of single and double letter, 139; Allen's injunction to check illegal conveyance of, 165; are examined by means of a strong light, 171, 409, 422; penalty for opening letters, 171; letters containing patterns or samples, whether to be charged as single or double letters, 177; right to make, on the delivery of letters, any charge beyond the postage contested, 197; memorials for and against the earlier delivery of foreign letters in London, 267; average number of letters for each foreign mail in 1790, 268; treatment of dead and missent letters before and after 1793, 308; return of the number of letters passing through the London Post Office submitted to the postmasters-general daily, 324; made penal not only to carry letters, but to send them otherwise than through the post, 335; on the delivery of letters, despite the decision of the Courts, a charge beyond the postage continues to be made, 422; owing to the complication of rates, not possible to express the total charge upon a letter in one taxation, 423 Lewis XIV.
    keywords: account; act; allen; appointment; boats; carteret; case; century; charge; clerks; coach; coaches; correspondence; cost; country; course; day; days; delivery; doubt; dublin; effect; england; freeling; general; great; having; horses; house; instance; ireland; kingdom; letter office; little; london; london office; london post; lord; mail; mail office; man; matter; means; merchants; miles; new; newspapers; number; office packets; office revenue; office servants; offices; order; packet; palmer; parliament; pay; penny post; persons; pitt; place; plan; post delivery; post letters; post office; post towns; postage; postmasters; posts; practice; present; public; rates; roads; salary; secretary; service; sir; state; street; time; twopenny post; walsingham; years; | |
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        item: #10 of 19
          id: 39978
      author: Hyde, James Wilson
       title: The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
        date: None
       words: 90097
      flesch: 60
     summary: The soldier received from time to time letters from his mother, which, on being read to him, affected him deeply, sometimes even to tears. In fact, three out of four complaints respecting money and other letters may generally be traced to that source, and of which, from the proceedings of a few weeks past, I have ample evidence in my possession at this moment.
    keywords: account; address; addresses; bags; bank; book; box; business; case; certain; coach; coaches; correspondence; country; course; day; days; doubt; duty; edinburgh; england; following; general; glasgow; good; great; guard; head; horses; hours; house; illustration; journey; lady; left; letter office; letters; london; mail; man; matter; means; men; miles; money; morning; near; new; night; note; number; office; order; p.m.; packet; paper; passengers; people; person; place; post; postage; postmaster; present; public; road; scotland; service; set; stage; time; town; travelling; way; work; years; young; | |
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        item: #11 of 19
          id: 40469
      author: Lang, T. B. (Thomas Bamford)
       title: An Historical Summary of the Post Office in Scotland
        date: None
       words: 5858
      flesch: 63
     summary: And the well ordering of these public Posts being a matter of general concern, and of great advantage, and that the best means for that end will be the settling and establishing a General Post Office, the Scottish Parliament ordains and appoints a General Post Office to be kept within the city of Edinburgh, from whence all letters and pacquets whatsoever may be with speed and expedition sent into any part of the kingdom, or any other of his Majesty's dominions, or into any kingdom or country beyond seas, by the pacquet that goes sealed to London. Previously the correspondence between those cities passed through Edinburgh, where it was detained twelve hours to be sent with the Mail to Glasgow at night.[39] In 1791, the number of persons required to conduct the business of the Edinburgh Office was thirty-one, and the number of Post towns in Scotland 164.[40] In 1794, the Inland Office, including the letter-carrier's branch, consisted of twenty-one persons.
    keywords: edinburgh; general; letters; london; office; post; post office; postmaster; scotland; scots; time
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        item: #12 of 19
          id: 40840
      author: Holbrook, James
       title: Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department
        date: None
       words: 142394
      flesch: 63
     summary: It occurred to me, on failing to find the letters referred to, that the wrapper in which they had been enclosed, might have been used in sending off other letters that morning, it being the custom in most of the smaller offices, as a matter of economy, to use the same wrappers several times by turning or reversing them. It is of course impossible for any one to distinguish between a decoy letter and a genuine one, and he who faithfully discharges his duties in reference to other letters, will never find out by his own personal experience, that there are such things as decoys.
    keywords: agent; bank; bill; box; business; case; chapter; character; charge; circumstances; city; clerk; contents; country; course; day; department; dollars; door; evidence; fact; following; friend; general; gentleman; good; hand; harmon; house; information; john; law; left; letter; letter office; life; little; mail; making; man; manner; master general; masters; matter; means; mind; moment; money; morning; new; night; note; office; official; order; package; paper; pat; person; place; point; post master; post office; present; public; purpose; question; road; room; route; sir; state; subject; suspicion; thought; time; town; united; washington; way; years; york; york post; young
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        item: #13 of 19
          id: 42129
      author: Lewins, William
       title: Her Majesty's Mails An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-Office
        date: None
       words: 119353
      flesch: 61
     summary: Under the improved Act of Queen Anne, 1711, it is again stated that no person or persons shall presume to open, detain, or delay any letter or letters, after the same is or shall be delivered into the General or other Post-Office, and before delivery to the persons to whom they are addressed, except by an express warrant in writing under the hand of one of the principal Secretaries of State for _every such opening_, detaining, or delaying. A whole sheet of paper goes 80 miles for twopence, two sheets for fourpence, and _an ounce of letter_ for but eightpence, and that in so short a time, by night as well as day, that every twenty-four hours the post goes one hundred and twenty miles, and in _five_ days an answer to a letter may be had from a place distant 200 miles from the writer! FOOTNOTES:
    keywords: account; act; arrangements; authorities; bags; banks; book; business; carriers; case; class |; clerks |; committee; conveyance; correspondence; country; course; day; delivery; department; edinburgh; england; english; establishment; foreign; general; government; great; half; hill; house; letter office; letters; london; london office; lord; mail; mail office; means; miles; money; new; newspapers; number; office; officers; order office; packet; penny post; place; post; post letters; post office; postage; postmaster; present; principal; public; railway; railway post; rate; revenue; scheme; scotland; service; sir; sorters |; stamps; state; subject; sum; system; time; town; travelling; way; work; year; | +; | |
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        item: #14 of 19
          id: 4296
      author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
       title: Friarswood Post Office
        date: None
       words: 68793
      flesch: 83
     summary: And what's your name?' 'Alfred King, Sir,' was the answer. Where be'est going? says I. To doctor's, says he, arter some stuff for Alfred King.
    keywords: alfred; boy; boys; brother; coming; cope; day; ellen; eyes; face; farmer; good; harold; head; help; home; hope; jane; king; lady; like; little; look; mind; miss; mother; mrs; paul; poor; sir; tell; thought; time; way; work
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        item: #15 of 19
          id: 42983
      author: Hemmeon, Joseph Clarence
       title: The History of the British Post Office
        date: None
       words: 100491
      flesch: 72
     summary: _ rate had carried a single letter 100 miles, a 7_d._ rate 150 miles. _ rate per half-ounce was extended to all the colonies and in 1868 to the United States.
    keywords: a. p.; act; app; boats; cal; century; charge; committee; company; delivery; england; expenses; foreign; general; geo; government; horses; house; ibid; iii; increase; inland; ireland; kingdom; letters; london; mail; members; miles; money; net; new; number; order; p. c.; p. d.; p. g.; packets; parliament; pay; penny post; post letters; post office; postage; postal; postmaster; posts; rates; rep; revenue; s. p.; service; state; system; t. p.; telegraph; time; united; use; year
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        item: #16 of 19
          id: 44171
      author: Jefferies, Thomas C.
       title: The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office
        date: None
       words: 19173
      flesch: 55
     summary: Early in 1919 the Post-office Department used the wireless telegraph in connection with air mail service. The real beginning of postal service in America seems to date from February 17, 1691, when William and Mary granted to Thomas Neale authority to conduct offices for the receipt and despatch of letters.
    keywords: business; city; delivery; department; division; employees; foreign; general; letters; mail; matter; money; new york; number; office; orders; post; post office; postal; postmaster; service; station; time; work; year; york office; york post
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        item: #17 of 19
          id: 45092
      author: Clarke, Geoffrey
       title: The Post Office of India and Its Story
        date: None
       words: 67984
      flesch: 56
     summary: Facing page_ 24 Group of Senior Officers in 1898 46 Sir William Maxwell, K.C.I.E. 56 Combined Passenger and Mail Motor Van 98 General Post Office, Bombay 110 General Post Office, Madras 116 Post Office, Agra 124 Group of Senior Officers in 1907 152 Early Stamps 178 Sheet of Four-Anna Stamps, 1854 178 Block of Half-Anna (Blue) Stamps of 1854 180 Victorian Issues of Postage Stamps 182 Edwardian and Georgian Issues of Postage Stamps 184 General Post Office, Calcutta 200 Site of Black Hole, Calcutta 200 THE POST OFFICE OF INDIA THE POST OFFICE OF INDIA AND ITS STORY CHAPTER I THE POST OFFICE OF INDIA For instance, Madras at one time had twenty-six delivery offices and, if people could have been induced to address their correspondence to one of these offices with the word (Madras) in brackets underneath, there might have been some hope of it being properly sorted by the Railway Mail Service, but probably 80 per cent of articles were simply addressed to Madras with or without the name of a street, so that the sorters were set an impossible task and the General Post Office had to maintain a special staff for sorting and conveying such letters to the offices from which they would eventually be delivered.
    keywords: act; annas; arrangements; articles; base office; bombay; british; british post; calcutta; charge; company; country; delivery; department; director; district post; expedition; field force; field offices; field post; field service; force; general; government; great; india; india office; indian post; letters; lines; mail; mail service; money; number; office savings; office work; offices; order; parcel post; parcels; post office; postage; postage stamps; postal; postmaster; public; railway; rates; sea post; service; sorting; staff; stamps; state; system; time; tolas; troops; weight; work; year
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        item: #18 of 19
          id: 51530
      author: Leiber, Fritz
       title: The Last Letter
        date: None
       words: 4068
      flesch: 82
     summary: The human being, a bald and scrawny one named Potshelter, picked up the envelope responsible for all the trouble, stared at it incredulously, opened it with trembling fingers, scanned the contents briefly, gave a great shriek and ran off at top speed, forgetting to hop on his perambulator, which followed him making anxious clucking noises. The nearest human representative of the Solar Bureau of Investigation, a rather wooden-looking man named Krumbine, also bald, recognized Potshelter as soon as the latter burst gasping into his office, squeezing through the door while it was still dilating.
    keywords: door; girl; hand; krumbine; letter; pink; potshelter; wastebasket
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        item: #19 of 19
          id: 58717
      author: Hyde, James Wilson
       title: The Early History of the Post in Grant and Farm
        date: None
       words: 59094
      flesch: 59
     summary: 155 Witherings quarrels 156 Difficulty with the Earl of Northumberland 158 CHAPTER V Sickness of Witherings and his reported death--Philip Burlamachi applies for Witherings' office 161 Divisions in the kingdom 163 Proposed opening of post letters 164 Burlamachi's services to the King's party 165 Fight for the possession of a post letter 166 A proposed duel over the seizing of post horses 169 Packet boat employed between Whitehaven and Dublin--Witherings' office sequestered 173 Attacks upon Witherings 175 Nature of charges made against him 177 The Secretaries of State try to undo Witherings--Witherings imprisoned--Assigns an interest in his place to the Earl of Warwick 179 Committee of the House of Commons to consider question of the Posts--Deliverance in favour of Witherings as regards the Foreign Letter Office 181 Deliverance respecting the Inland Posts 182 Decision against Witherings, Coke, and Windebank, in regard to imprisonment of carriers 183 Rough treatment of Witherings 185 Earl of Warwick urges ejection of Burlamachi 186 CHAPTER VI Inland Letter Office to be delivered to Earl of Warwick 187 Burlamachi required to produce accounts 188 Mails to be seized and delivered to the Earl of Warwick 189 Burlamachi imprisoned--He produces accounts 190 Foreign Letter Office remains with Witherings, the Inland Letter Office with the Earl of Warwick 191 James Hickes, clerk in the Foreign Letter Office--Goes over to the King at Oxford 192 King Charles sets up an independent system of Posts 193 Imprisonment of Hickes 195 Witherings assessed by Committee for Advance of Money It is then explained that, by means of which so speedie conveyance, men may in eleaven days write unto London and receive answers thereof backe again, and their friends and factours may have three dayes' respitt to give answere unto such letters as shalbe sent; as also any man receiving letters from London may have like time to answer the same, etc.
    keywords: bishop; business; carriers; coke; council; day; days; deputy; dover; earl; england; following; general; horses; house; inland; john; king; letter office; letters; london; lord; mails; majesty; man; men; money; order; packet; parliament; parts; period; persons; petitioner; place; post office; postmaster; posts; public; road; said; secretary; service; sir; stanhope; state; thomas; time; way; whitley; witherings; year; | |
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