Cheap Postage
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Boston, 1848: the Cheap Postage Association asked for a pamphlet on lower letter rates, and its corresponding secretary, Joshua Leavitt, supplied it. The argument rests on Britain, where cheap postage had by then been in force for more than eight years, and on the case for a like reform in the United States.
Leavitt quotes British writers and correspondents on what the change meant for families and trade, and mentions Rowland Hill, whom a London committee honoured with a national testimonial. Statistics and an appendix follow.
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- Author
- Joshua Leavitt
- Reading time
- About 3 hours
- Pages
- 79
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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