The romance of the British Post Office : its inception and wondrous development . Parcel Post last year was respectively^1,437,312 and ;^i,009,022. The total number offoreign and colonial parcels insured was 73, of the parcels are of great value, and some-times contain between ;^2000 and ;^3000 in gold. It is interesting to notice in connection with theParcel Post Service that the Post Office has, inmany instances, reverted to the coach services, andparcel coaches or vans run nightly between Londonand Brighton, Oxford, Chatham, Tunbridge Wells,Ipswich, Watford, and Hertford, and also b
The romance of the British Post Office : its inception and wondrous development . Parcel Post last year was respectively^1,437,312 and ;^i,009,022. The total number offoreign and colonial parcels insured was 73, of the parcels are of great value, and some-times contain between ;^2000 and ;^3000 in gold. It is interesting to notice in connection with theParcel Post Service that the Post Office has, inmany instances, reverted to the coach services, andparcel coaches or vans run nightly between Londonand Brighton, Oxford, Chatham, Tunbridge Wells,Ipswich, Watford, and Hertford, and also betweenLiverpool and Manchester. This is a less expensivemode of conveyance than by railway, because therailway companies claim 55 per cent, of all thepostage collected on parcels conveyed during anyportion of the journey by rail. A considerable impetus was given to the InlandParcel Post by the introduction, in 1885, of a system ofinsurance and of compensation for loss or damage,under which compensation not exceeding £1 is nowgiven where no insurance fee is paid ; and where an. THE POST OFFICE OF TO-DAY. 145 insurance fee of one penny or twopence is paid,compensation is given to the amount of ^5 or ;^ plan is one which has fully commended itself tothe public, as the annual number of registered parcelsalready stated indicates. The Remittance Branch is one of the most import-ant and useful adjuncts of the postal system. Sumsof money can now be remitted through the posteither by Money Order or Postal Order, the maxi-mum limit in the former case being ;^io, and in thelatter £1. The former service is the older, anddates back as far as 1838, when the business wascarried on by three clerks in a couple of rooms at thenorth end of the old General Post Office, and onecannot but be impressed with the astonishing resultsthat have since accrued. At the very outset, when the Money OrderService was a purely private undertaking con-ducted by three enterprising individuals whohappened to
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