Post Office Reform: Its Importance and Practicability

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  • In postal system: Rowland Hill’s reforms

    The publication in 1837 of Post Office Reform: Its Importance and Practicability, by Rowland Hill (later Sir Rowland Hill), a British educator and tax reformer, is justly regarded as one of the most important milestones in postal progress. Based on an exhaustive study of the cost structure of postal operations,…

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