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To - day the total value of the Post Office's transactions with the public is 1,026,064,000l .; the net revenue being 12,307,000Z . · The greatest ally of the new spirit which carried the Post Office forward on an unprecedented scale of ...
To - day the total value of the Post Office's transactions with the public is 1,026,064,000l .; the net revenue being 12,307,000Z . · The greatest ally of the new spirit which carried the Post Office forward on an unprecedented scale of ...
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To - day life in a travelling post office may not be quite so romantic , but it is all the more strenuous . Efficiency , accuracy , and steady nerves are paramount . When the travelling post office was first launched it was soon ...
To - day life in a travelling post office may not be quite so romantic , but it is all the more strenuous . Efficiency , accuracy , and steady nerves are paramount . When the travelling post office was first launched it was soon ...
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Since then an enormous stride has been made both by the Home and the Colonial posts . New branches have been grafted on to the old main stem . But a hundred years ago the Post Office's only function was the carrying of letters .
Since then an enormous stride has been made both by the Home and the Colonial posts . New branches have been grafted on to the old main stem . But a hundred years ago the Post Office's only function was the carrying of letters .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 272-273 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1939 |
| Original from | University of California, Berkeley |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2020 |
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