ie_,
1893, p. 2.

[236] The rates were to be rounded up. One or 2 pfennigs were to be
counted as 3 pfennigs, 4 or 5 pfennigs as 6 pfennigs, 7 or 8 pfennigs as
9 pfennigs, and 10 or 11 pfennigs as 1 silver groschen.

[237] H. von Stephan, op. cit., pp. 760 and 761.

[238] This does not take into account the normal yearly increase, which
was 120,000 thalers under the old rates. If that be taken into account
there was still a loss in 1847. Thus:--

--------+------------------------+---------------+-----------
Year. | Probable Gross Postage | |
| Receipts under Old | Actual Yield. | Loss.
| Rates. | |
--------+------------------------+---------------+-----------
1844 | 4,765,000 | 4,628,133 | 136,867
1845 | 4,885,000 | 4,325,570 | 559,430
1846 | 5,005,000 | 4,514,338 | 490,662
1847 | 5,125,000 | 4,771,392 | 353,608
--------+------------------------+---------------+-----------
--Ibid., p. 762.

[239] Ibid., p. 763.

[240] "Die preussische Postverwaltung war bei Einf[:u]hrung der
weitgreifenden Taxerm[:a]ssigungen mit grosser Vorsicht und mit weiser
Berechnung aller in Betracht kommenden Vorst[:a]nde schrittweise zu
Werke gegangen und hatte die Erleichterungen ohne bedeutende Opfer aus
der Postkasse erkauft."--Moch, _Archiv f[:u]r Post und Telegraphie_,
1893, p. 40.

[241] Regulation of 21st December 1800.

[242] Law of 21st March 1861.

[243] Moch, _Archiv f[:u]r Post und Telegraphie_, 1893, p. 42.

[244] Ibid.

[245] Law of 16th September 1862.

[246] Law of 16th February 1867. See _infra_, Appendix, p. 355.

[247] Prussia, Hanover, the two Mecklenburgs, Oldenburg, Brunswick,
Saxony, Hamburg, Bremen, Lubeck, and the Thurn and Taxis posts.

[248] Moch, _Archiv f[:u]r Post und Telegraphie_, 1893, p. 44.

[249] Law of 28th October 1871.

[250] For 1906 it has been estimated at 41,693,017 M. P. Ullrich, _Die
Finanzen der Reichs-Post- und Telegraphenverwaltung_, Stettin, 1913, p.
54, n. 5.

[251] J. Jung, _Entwickelung des deutschen Post- und Telegraphenwesen in
den letzten 25 Jahren_, Leipzig, 1893, p. 45.

[252] The following table (J. Jung, loc. cit.) shows the increase in the
number of rural deliverers:--

1868 1870 1875 1880 1885 1891
8,021 8,334 11,405 11,