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The Development of Rates of Postage

by A. D. Smith

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A history and analysis of what it has cost to send a letter: the King’s posts and the farming of the revenue, the extraordinary rates before reform, Rowland Hill and the penny post, the parcel and book rates, and the imperial and international agreements that set the modern structure.

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