[408] See Leslie Stephen, Life of Henry Fawcett, London, 1885, pp. 417-18.
[409] 45 & 46 Vict., cap. 74.
[410] Jevons had foreseen that the rich would benefit; but he anticipated a large general traffic in household supplies. See W. S. Jevons, "A State Parcel Post," Contemporary Review, London, 1879, p. 209.
[411] See graphs at pp. [371] and [372], infra.
[412] The estimates on which this statement is based are given below at p. [311], Cf. Leslie Stephen, loc. cit. p. 420.
[414] Annual Reports of the Postmaster-General, Washington, 1890 and 1891.
[415] I.e. under the Government frank, for the fraudulent use of which a penalty of $300 is imposed.
[416] "In point of fact there are but four strong objections to the parcels post, and they are the four great express companies, who would be just as well off with an 8- or 11-pound parcel post if the heavy freight of the Executive Departments and the immense packages of bogus serial books that are now thrown upon the mails were shut out and turned over to the express companies, where they belong."—Report of the Postmaster-General, Washington, 1891, p. 114.
[417] Ibid., 1904, p. 2.