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Of course, Rowland Intl made the additional dis- covery, which

was the really original thing in his agita- tion, that a uniform 1d. postage for all distances would pay. He based his belief on the fact that the handling of a letter—that is to say, the labour involved in collecting and delivering—was the same whether the letter travelled eight hundred miles or only one mile. That truth does not, of course, concern us now. But the restoration of penny postage would probably not only pay the Post Office as a Department, but would incidentally give a real impetus to trade.