The penny post of 1680 was invented by one Robert Murray, an upholsterer, and was carried on in England by William Dockwra. of the Customs service, the latter being the seventeenth centurv prototype of Rowland Hill. It is curious to note that this penny post ga.re the London district in 1680 a in ore frequent service than it lias had in modern times. deliveries and collections being made every hour of the day. The difficulties of delivery will be in a measure understood when it is noted that the names of the streets were not posted up and the houses Tvere not numbered, it being left for nn Act of Parliament in 1767 to pro vide for these improvements. The penny, however, was of far higher . jJmnow*
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19110609.2.45
Bibliographic details
Star (Christchurch), Issue 10175, 9 June 1911, Page 3
Word Count
127Untitled Star (Christchurch), Issue 10175, 9 June 1911, Page 3
Using This Item
Star Media Company Ltd is the copyright owner for the Star (Christchurch). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Star Media. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.