D: Rates established 18th December 1824.
E: Rates established 1st October 1844.—Ibid., pp. 9 and 39.
[726] K. A. H. Schmid, Zur Geschichte der Briefporto-Reform in Deutschland, Jena, 1864, p. 36.
[727] Oskar Grosse, Die Beseitigung des Thurn und Taxis'schen Postwesens in Deutschland, pp. 98-9.
[728] Ibid., p. 47.
[729] Ibid., p. 66.
[730] The conditions were in many respects similar to those obtaining in the United States. Vide supra, p. [191].
[731] "In England you have thickly congested rural districts, large towns every few miles, and tremendous cities: in Canada you have a population of less than 8,000,000 spread over a vast area, with few cities or large towns, and with vast spaces that must be traversed where no population exists.... We are giving, as compared with England, a flat rate in an area twice as great as Britain gives parcel post, and where all the conditions are much less favourable."—Hon. L. Pelletier, Parl. Debates, Canada (Commons), 4th June 1913.
[732] Canada Official Postal Guide, 1917, pp. 27-8.
[733] Such improvements as the introduction of letter-cards, reply-paid postcards, etc., afford conveniences to the public, but they have little bearing on general questions of rates of charge. The number of such articles passing by post is insignificant in comparison with the total postal traffic.
[734] Thus, in the United Kingdom, the number of letters registered in 1913-14 was .68 per cent. of the total number posted. The total cost of the supplemental services, including registration, insurance, and express delivery, was in 1913-14 only about a million, out of a total cost for all postal services of over £17,000,000 (Annual Report of the Postmaster-General, 1913-14, p. 92).