Home Gallery Rowland Hill’s final Penny Postage plan (November 1839)
This is a draft of the long letter Rowland Hill sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer with a final plan for the introduction of the Uniform Penny Post. It includes a resume of the history, compilation and context. Uniform postage charged by weight was first introduced on 5 December 1839 when it was reduced to 4d anywhere outside London. It was immediately successful, so much so that uniform penny postage was introduced on 10 January 1840.
1600s William Dockwra (c. 1635–1716) / Robert Murray (1635-c.1725)
1900s Coping with the influx of letters from the front during World War 1
1800s Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
1800s Emergence of the letterbox
1600s Dockwra Penny Post letter (1681)
1900s British Empire Medal winner Miss Ethel Kate Bellamy (31 December 1966)