Penny Post
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Paisley Penny Post: United Kingdom postal strike; local post 1971.
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City Penny Post - The 1765 Act (5 George 3 Cap 25) allowed the setting up of ".....a Penny Post Office..." in any city or town in Great Britain, Ireland or North America, as thought convenient. Charges to be the same as the London Penny Post.
Dockwra's local penny post was the first to use postmarks, one of which is shown in Figure 7, to show prepayment of postage. His post was also the first to use a flat rate for services, and this served as a model for later postal reforms.
In London in 1680 - almost two hundred years before the introduction of a modern postal system - William Docwra set up a "Penny Post" for the collection and delivery of letters within the limits of London City, ...
It was called Island Penny Postage (also Inland Penny Postage, and Uniform Penny Post), which meant that all letters sent within the UK went for a single fixed rate of One Penny per half-ounce.
At the introduction of Rowland Hill's Uniform Penny Post in England in 1840 Henry Cole, Hill's assistant said: "All the progress of mankind is helped on by freedom of thought expressed in writing.
Designs submitted were not considered satisfactory, and Sir Rowland Hill appointed to the Treasury to assist in preparations to put penny postage into effect-went to a firm named Perkins, Bacon and Petch.
These rare British stamps, also know as the Blue Penny postal stamps, were sold for nearly $4 million in 1993.
2.) The 'Mauritius Post Office Error' Stamps (1847)
These stamps had the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid." ...
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