The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical Study
A. D. Smith
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  • East India Company, [344]
  • Elgin, Lord, [53]
  • Evasion of postage, [16], [27], [48], [72], [254]
  • Express companies,
    • competition for second-class mail, [161];
    • delivery of parcels, [193], [195]
  • Farm (of the posts), [13], [14], [15], [70], [80], [380]
  • Fee letter, see Letters
  • Finance, [35], [36]
  • Finlay, Hugh, [37], [401]
  • First-class mail matter, see Mail matter, classification of
  • Fittings (for sorting), [284];
    • cost of, [293]
  • Foot-messengers, [184], [221], [331], [378]
  • Foreign letter office, [8], [12], [13]
  • Foreign posts, see Posts
  • Fourth-class mail matter, see Mail matter, classification of
  • Foxcroft, Thomas, [66], [399]
  • Frank, definition of, [27] note
  • Franking, [27], [49], [52], [114], [115], [116], [118], [138], [148], [403-11]
  • Franklin, Benjamin, [39], [63], [64], [66], [148]
  • Freeling, Sir Francis, [22], [137], [138]
  • Freight trains, use of for second-class mail, [163]
  • Gazette, London, [113], [114]
  • Gazette, Oxford, [113], [114]
  • General post, [248]
  • General post delivery (London), [248]
  • Germain, Lord George, [67]
  • German-Austrian Postal Union, 1850, [213], [226], [236], [264]
  • Geschäftspapiere, [240]
  • Gladstone, W. E., [126], [130]
  • Goddard, William, [65]
  • Gratuitous transit (of foreign mails), [268], [273], [275]
  • Halfpenny Packet Post, [222]
  • Hamilton, Andrew, [60], [62], [392-9]
  • Hamilton, John, [64]
  • Hand-stamping machines, [303]
  • Handling, cost of, see Cost of handling;
    • method of, [284]
  • Hartington, Marquess of, [130]
  • Heaton, Sir J. Henniker, [346]
  • Heriot, John, [40]
  • Hickes, James, [113]
  • Hill, Matthew Davenport, 29
  • Hill, Sir Rowland, [23-30], [47], [72], [74], [84], [127], [220], [312], [323]
  • Horse-posts, see Posts
  • Howe, John, [43], [139]
  • Illustrated London News, [129]
  • Inland letter office, [10], [12]
  • International Parcel Post, see Parcel post
  • Jaccottey, P., [171]
  • Joyce, H., [17]
  • King's messengers, [1], [4], [6], [377]
  • Landbestellgeld, [110]
  • Landkutschen, [97]
  • Landporto, [102]
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfred, [147]
  • L'Estrange, Roger, [112], [113]
  • Letter rate, see Rates of postage
  • Letters,
    • definition of "single," "double," "treble," [336];
    • bye, [17];
    • cross-post, [17];
    • drop, [254];
    • fee, [51];
    • way, [18], [50];
    • average weight of, [33], [291], [308]
  • Licences, issue of, by Post Office, [357]
  • Licensing Act, 1662, [112], [117]
  • Lichfield, Lord, [29]
  • Local newspapers (protected), see Newspapers (provincial)
  • Local penny posts, [250]
  • Local rates, see Rates of postage
  • London Gazette, [113], [114]
  • London Penny Post, [183], [247], [342]
  • London Threepenny Post, [252]
  • London Twopenny Post, [252]
  • Loss on certain branches of Post Office business, see Deficit
  • Maberley, Colonel, [29], [184]
  • Magazine Post to Canada, [346]
  • Magazines, transmission by post, [150], [152], [154], [155], [159], [346]
  • Mail-coach, introduction of, [21]
  • Mail matter, classification of, [75], [152], [191], [244]
  • Mail order business, [196]
  • Maîtres de poste, [37], [39]
  • Manley, John, [13], [383]
  • Maryland Journal, [65]
  • Master of the Posts, [2], [12]
  • Menai Bridge, additional rate for, [339]
  • Merchant Adventurers, [8]
  • Merchant Companies, [8]
  • Mercurius Publicus, [112]
  • Military post routes, [40], [42], [43]
  • Millerand, A., [92], [93]
  • Monopoly, postal, [7], [9], [13], [60], [80], [255], [259], [325], [330], [340], [358], [380-4]
  • Monsell, W., 133
  • Muddiman, Henry, [112], [113]
  • Mulock, Sir William, [57], [146], [147]
  • Murray, Robert, [247]
  • Neale, Thomas, [60], [62], [391-8]
  • Net revenue, see Revenue, net
  • New England colonies, [59]
  • Newsbooks, [111], [112]
  • Newsletters, [111]
  • Newspaper rate, see Rates of postage
  • Newspaper Stamps, Select Committee on, 1851, [122], [127]
  • Newspaper supplements, [171], [172], [181]
  • Newspapers,
    • average weight of, [132], [142], [308];
    • cost of transmission, [175], [176];
    • franking of, [148];
    • free transmission of, [51], [56], [57], [139], [140], [142], [143], [144];
    • "class," [124], [125];
    • political, [167], [168];
    • provincial (protected), [142], [146], [150], [151], [166], [169], [177];
    • transient, [137], [152]
  • Nicholas, Sir Edward, [113]
  • North German Union, [108], [213], [214], [228], [257]
  • Nuncii, [1], [2], [377]