2nd. The limitation of weight abolished.
3rd. An additional daily despatch to London from the principal villages in the vicinity established without additional expense.
4th. As one step among others towards the extinction of money prepayment, the business of all new receiving houses restricted to stamped and unpaid letters. A lower scale of salaries being also consequently introduced.
5th. The postal arrangements of 120 of the largest towns in the United Kingdom revised and completed.
6th. Unlimited writing on inland newspapers authorised on payment of 1d. fee.
7th. The public and the Department better protected from annoyance and loss in respect of unpaid letters, by the establishment of a summary process for recovering postage from the senders.
8th. The book-post established.
9th. The advantage of cheap registration secured to the public (by reducing the charge from 1s. to 6d.), without inconvenience to the Department.
10th. An important extension of the time of posting late letters for a great part of the United Kingdom afforded by arrangements at the Euston Railway Station.
11th. As a step towards more frequent communication between large towns, a third mail per day established from Birmingham and other towns on the North Western Railway to London; this addition being made by the North Western Company without payment.