Transcriber's note

There are numerous quotations from documents in German, French and archaic English which use many abbreviations, variant spellings and inconsistent spellings which are retained, unless an obvious typographical correction is [listed at the end of this document]

The Table of Contents is found on [page vii] and the alphabetical Index is found on [page 425].

STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

Edited by the Hon. W. Pember Reeves, Ph.D., Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

No. 50 in the Series of Monographs by writers connected with the London School of Economics and Political Science.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF RATES OF POSTAGE

AN HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY

A. D. SMITH, B.Sc. (Econ.)

of the secretary's office,
general post office, london

with an introduction by

THE RIGHT HON. HERBERT SAMUEL, M.P.
Postmaster-General 1910-14 and 1915-16

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C. 1

[Thesis approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science (Economics) in the University of London]

First published in 1917