Last yenr's Postal reforms done in association "with the commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee were a stroke of genius. Tt docs not touch your imayinati closely in the Far East as the reform which is one of the great historic facts of the current week, but we have felt it to be a delightful thing, in our home correspondence to pretty nearly yet rid the "open at the ends" and to have our letter rate assimilate to our book parcel rate, Even apart from business, there is great temptation to send our friends newspaper cuttings, pictorial illustrations, other people's letters, nnd manifold other enclosures, sealed up inside an envelope a meroly nominal rate of postage.
one stroke the Duke got rid of nineteen-twentieths of the unsealed book-rate packages, and let us send a quarter of a pound of communications inside an enveloped for a penny, and at the same time made hard things easy inside the post office by bringing everything, except the halfpenny packet and newspapers and pateels under s pod in weight, under the simple rule of the letter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.