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    thers , for the mere pleasure of letting the letter-carriers , like so many Princesses , exercise their patience in re-arranging them ? Mr Hill would have us pay but

    one penny for postage ; he would have us use stamped covers ; he would have us do other things equally new and reasonable . He might as well say that a postman without having * to turn a chaos of letters into a

    system before he sets out on his walk , and being not obliged to wait for his money at every door , and being disencumbered of his bag of pence , would do his duty with more dispatch than he does at present , which

    is impossible ; because , having all the advantages of experience , and a casual assistance , he is unable to get through his duties as it is , although he has to walk ever so far out of the

    way to the central office , to be edified by the confusion . Such is the sum of reasoning on the opposing side . We will briefly recapitulate the heads of the plan proposed

    by Mr Hill : a reduction in the charge of postage ; a simplification of the accounts , by obliging the postage of * every letter to be paid in advance ; and an improved method of sorting the

    letters . In his highly interesting and able pamphlet , * he has shown that the uniform charge of one penny is more than sufficient to meet every necessary expense , and allow for a considerable revenue besides ;

    and he considers it probable , Post Office Reform ; its Importance Charles Knight and Co .

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    and with much reason , that suell an increase would arise in the transmission of letters , that thc < revenue would not suffer by thc < reduction of price , —or might possibly benefit by it . It ha * been questioned whether a postoffice should be made a source

    of revenue ; but m&ny object tions might be urged to a gra ^ tuitous post , and a lower charge to be efficient , than the penny ( with a few modifications ] could scarcely be made . Ii would seem , therefore , that Mi

    Hill ' s plan unites in the highes possible degree the advantages of a gratuitous and of a taxe < post ; of one returning a revenue , and furnished witl checks upon abuses , and om which gives every practica facility to the transmission o

    comm unications . A very partial trial of the plan is suggested by the Commissioners of Post-office Inquiry . It is to be made in the twopenny post department

    The twopenny post is to continue under its present form , as to charge and times of delivery ; but an independent series of deliveries of paid letters is to be established , at shorter intervals , and at a charge of one penny . Stamped covers , according to Mr Hill ' s suggestion , are to be sold , at the same price , which will add to the facilities . Every one may thus keep a quire of franks in his desk , without incurring a useless obligation ; and members of Parliament and Practicability . By Rowland HilL

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    The Two Postages *—Twopenny and Penny . 20 * 31

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 2077, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/63/