_see_ Rates of postage

Savings Bank, Post Office, 33, 357

_Schriftentaxe_, 225, 240

Second-class Mail, _see_ Mail matter, classification of;
Congressional Commission on, 1907, 156;
1912, 158;
deficit, 147, 155, 158, 162;
use of freight trains for, 163

Select Committee on Postage, Report of, 1838, 30;
on Newspaper Stamps, 1851, 122, 127

Seven Years' War, 81, 100, 211

Ship Letter Office, 344

Ship letters, 339, 342

Single letter, definition of, 336

Smith, Adam, 329, 330

Sorting frames, 285

_Stafetti_, 8, 378

Staff, 33-5;
cost of, 289, 301, 306

Stage coach, 20, 250 note, 385

Stamp duty (on newspapers), 117, 119, 121, 128

Stamping machines, 303

Stamps, postage, introduction of, 27

Stanhope, Lord, 7, 341, 380

State control of Post Office, 328

Stayner, T. A., 138

Stephan, H. von, 241, 266

Supplemental services, 33, 109, 357

Supplements (newspaper), 132, 171, 172, 181

Surveyors (post office), 20, 21

Sutherland, Daniel, 43

Taxes on knowledge, 126, 142

Taxis, J. von, 350

Telegraphs, Post Office, 33, 358

Telephones, Post Office, 33, 358

Temporary uniform fourpenny rate. 30 note

Third-class Mail Matter, _see_ Mail matter, classification of

Thirty Years' War, 209, 353

Thorough Post, 4, 5

Threepenny Post (London), 252

Thurn and Taxis Posts, 108, 350

_Times_ newspaper, 121, 129

Trade journals, transmission by post, 132, 147, 159

Transient newspapers, 137, 152

Transit, gratuitous, 268, 273, 275

Transit rates, international, 267, 270, 271, 273, 275, 279, 281

Travelling Post, 3-6, 79

Treble letter, definition of, 336

Tuke, Brian, 2, 3

Tupper, Sir Charles, 57

Twopenny Post (London), 252

Uniform postage, 23, 26, 28, 54, 72, 75, 85, 108, 312, 323

_Union g['e]n['e]rale des Postes_, 269

_Union postale universelle_, 269, note 3

Universal penny postage, 276, 348

Universal Postal Union, 224, 229

University posts, 6, 78

Urgent parcels, special fee for, 215

Wages (of postmasters), 3, 5

Wages, Post Office, 34, 297

Walkley, A. B., 275 note

Wanamaker, J., 77, 154, 155, 192

Ward, Edmund, 137, 139

Ward, Sir J. G., 276

Warwick, Earl of, 11

Way letter, 18, 50

Way Office, 49, 50

Weighing of mails (United States), 156, 157

Wells, H. G., 134

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