tailieunhanh - CHEAP POSTAGE REMARKS AND STATISTICS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES

For more than eight years, the people of Great Britain have enjoyed the blessing of Cheap Postage. A literary gentleman of England, in a letter to his friend in Boston, dated London, March 23, 1848, says—“Our Post Office Reform is our greatest measure for fifty years, not only political, but educational for the English mind and affections. If you had any experience of the exquisite convenience of the thing, your speech would wax eloquent to advocate it. With your increasing population, a similar measure must soon pay; and it will undoubtedly increase the welfare and solidarité of the United. | CHEAP POSTAGE REMARKS AND STATISTICS ON THE SUBJECT OF CHEAP POSTAGE AND POSTAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. BY JOSHUA LEAVITT COR. SEC. OF THE CHEAP POSTAGE ASSOCIATION. The well-ordering of the Postes is a Matter of General Concernment and of Great Advantage as well for the preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise. Statute of Charles II. Boston Published for the Cheap Postage Association By Otis Claps Treasurer No. 12 School Street. 1848 Contents PUBLISHING DIRECTION. CHEAP POSTAGE. APPENDIX. Footnotes pg 002 PUBLISHING DIRECTION. Subjoined are the proceedings under which the following sheets were prepared and are now published At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Cheap Postage Association on the 31st of March 1848 Dr. Howe Dr. Webb and Mr. Leavitt were appointed a Committee of Publication. And on motion of Dr. Samuel G. Howe it was Voted That the Publishing Committee be authorized to procure the compilation of a pamphlet on the subject of Cheap Postage and Postal Reform. At a meeting of the Board on the 25th of April 1848 Mr. Leavitt the Corresponding Secretary on behalf of the Publishing Committee reported the copy of a pamphlet on the subject prescribed. And on motion of Mr. Moses Kimball it was Voted That the pamphlet be printed for general circulation under the direction of the Publishing Committee. J. W. James Chairman of the Board. Charles B. Fairbanks Recording Secretary. boston April 26 1848. BOSTON PRINTED BY freeman and BOLLES DEVONSHIRE STREET. pg 003 cheap postage. For more than eight years the people of Great Britain have enjoyed the blessing of Cheap Postage. A literary gentleman of England in a letter to his friend in Boston dated London March 23 1848 says Our Post Office Reform is our greatest measure for fifty years not only political but educational for the English mind and affections. If you had any experience of the exquisite convenience of the thing your speech would wax eloquent to advocate it. With your .