 | Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1853 - 1034 pages
...Post-Office in the United Kingdom before the change in the postage was about 76,000,000. The fourpenny rate and the alteration in the system of charge by number...introduced on the 5th of December, 1839, and on the lOth of January, 184O, the rate was reduced to one penny; during that year the number of letters increased... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1853 - 1034 pages
...Post-Office in the United Kingdom before the change in the postage was about 76,OOO,OOO. The fourpenny rate and the alteration in the system of charge by number of enclosures to that by »eight, was introduced on the 5th of December, 1839, and on the 10th of January, 1840, the rate was... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1854 - 1042 pages
...Office in the United Kingdom before the change in the postage was about 76,000,000. The fourpenny rat« and the alteration in the system of charge by number of enclosures to that by »eight, was introduced on the 5th of December, 1839, and on the 10th of January, 1840, the rate was... | |
 | John Edward Gray - 1870 - 242 pages
...uniform system of postage, as an experiment, charging fourpence for each letter, to he prepaid in money. On the 10th of January, 1840, the rate was reduced to one penny on a halt ounce letter, and on the 6th of May, 1840, the "Mulready envelope" was issued; for Mr. R.... | |
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The fourpenny-rate, and the alteration in the system of charge by number of enclosures to that by weight, was introduced on the 5th of December, 1839, and on the 10th of January, 1840, the rate was reduced to one penny : during that year the number of... 