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	Penny Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one penny.
		In the United Kingdom, the London Penny Post was established in 1680 by William Dockwra, who established a local post that used a uniform rate of one old penny for delivery of packets up to one pound in within London.
		On 10 January 1840, the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, and several months later could be prepaid with the postage stamp known as the Penny Black.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Penny_Post (292 words)

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		While waiting for the penny to be completely dissolved, 10 mL copper standards of 0.1 M, 0.2 M, 0.3 M, 0.4 M and 0.5 M were made from a copper standard of 0.5xx M using a Mohr pipet and a 10 mL volumetric flask.
		The molarity of the pre-1982 penny was found to be 0.280 M, while that of the post-1982 penny was found to be 0.118 M. The mass percent of Cu for the pre-1982 penny was 116% and for the post-1982 penny mass percent was 7.55%.
		The percent error for the pre-1982 penny was 22.1% and that of the post-1982 penny was 201%.
	plaza.ufl.edu /axela/papers/CHM2045LSix.doc (541 words)

	Penny Post -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Penny Post is any one of several (Click link for more info and facts about postal system) postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one (A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit) penny.
		On 10 January 1840, the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, and several months later could be prepaid with the (A token that postal fees have been paid) postage stamp known as the (Click link for more info and facts about Penny Black) Penny Black.
		In 1898, the Imperial Penny Post extended the rate throughout the (Formerly the United Kingdom and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I) British Empire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/penny_post.htm (219 words)

	The Penny Post
		The Uniform Penny Post came into force on 10 January 1840, and Rowland Hill was proved right.
		On the first day of the Penny Post 112,000 letters were posted, more than three times the number posted on that day the previous year.
		In 1840 after the introduction of the Penny Post there were 168 million and ten years later this had doubled to an incredible 347 million letters.
	www.victorianweb.org /history/pennypos.html (716 words)

	Penny Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Penny Post is any one of several postal system s in which normal letters could be sent for one penny.
		By the beginning of the 19th century there were a number of these, identifiable on cover s, with markings such as "PP", "Py Post", or "Penny Post" along with the name of the town.
		Penny Stock Watchman Fact based penny stock research.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Penny_Post.html (593 words)

	Victorian London - Communications - Post - Postal System
		With the general penny postage for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Channel Islands—with a regular, rapid, and frequent transmission of the mails from and to the provinces, there is, moreover, an admirable system adopted for the distribution of letters throughout the metropolis.
		Probably he wishes to post a paternal epistle to his son, who is on a fishing excursion in Switzerland, and the letter is important, for in it the son is adjured not by any means to discontinue wearing a flannel under-jacket.
		Soon the Post Office authorities sent their letters by rail: and then they found it necessary to build special carriages for the conveyance of the let uers and the Post Office servants in charge, so that sorting might be carried on during the journeys.
	www.victorianlondon.org /communications/postal.htm (4195 words)

	Penny Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be for one penny.
		The concept worked well for local and in 1764 Parliament authorized the creation of Penny in any town or city of the By the beginning of the 19th century there were a number of these on covers with markings such as "PP" "Py or "Penny Post" along with the name the town.
		On 10 January 1840 the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK and months later could be prepaid with the postage stamp known as the Penny Black.
	www.freeglossary.com /Penny_post (241 words)

	Penny Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The term was introduced by William Dockwra, who set up a London Penny Post as a private venture in 1680, delivering letters and packets within a prescribed area of London, for a penny each.
		Penny posts were introduced in Edinburgh and Dublin in 1773, and afterwards in many other towns.
		The introduction of a national Penny Post, replacing the previous system under which charges had varied according to the distance a letter was carried, was the central feature of Sir Rowland Hill's great postal reform of 1840.
	www.stampnotes.com /Notes_from_the_Past/pastnote241.htm (208 words)

	Penny Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the United Kingdom, the London Penny Post wasestablished in 1680 by William Dockwra, who established a local post that used a uniform rate within London.
		Bythe beginning of the 19th century there were a number of these,identifiable on covers, with markings such as "PP", "Py Post", or "Penny Post" along withthe name of the town.
		On 10 January 1840, theUniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, and several months later could be prepaid with the postage stamp known as the Penny Black.
	www.therfcc.org /penny-post-149968.html (213 words)

	Dakshina Kannada Philatelic Association - The first postage stamp Penny Black
		The Penny Black and Penny Post were the brain child of Sir Rowland Hill often called the father of modern post office.
		First reform was the introduction of uniform Penny Postage on 5th December 1839, which was reduced to one Penny on 9th January 1840.
		The Penny Black, the first ever adhesive postage stamp was issued on 1st May 1840 though it became valid for postage on 6th may 1840.
	www.geocities.com /dakshina_kan_pa/art11/penny.htm (1022 words)

	Lincolnshire Post Offices
		The Post Office counter was moved from the north wall to the centre of the edge of the new retail area on the west wall.
		Post Office situated in converted barn/outhouse which was formerly her son's flat.
		As both the school and post office were opened in 1847 the probability is that the post office was located in the school from the outset.
	www.reynolds-s-a.freeserve.co.uk /rzpo.htm (13312 words)

	Carolina Chemistry - Penny skins
		Grasp a pre-1982 penny with the tongs and heat it in the flame of the burner.
		An exercise to determine the average mass of pennies appears to be in error after students discover a discrepancy in the mass of the coins vs the year minted.
		Materials needed but not included are 10 pennies per year for 10 of the years between 1970 and 1981, 10 pennies per year for 10 of the years since 1983, and samples of various types of paper.
	www.carolina.com /chemistry/experiments/pennyskins.htm (663 words)

	Mackay, Thomas, ed., A Plea for Liberty, Millar, The Evils of State Trading as Illustrated by the Post Office: Library ...
		We do not argue that a penny postage is a colossal grievance, for many people have been heard to exclaim that a reduction of the rate of postage and a consequent increase of correspondence are a prospect which they cannot regard with equanimity.
		The average citizen will doubtless bless the Post Office for the reduction, unconscious of the fact that he has been overcharged throughout the past, and that the overcharge will continue at the rate of three-halfpence per letter until the postage is reduced to a penny.
		Anything which largely shifted correspondence from the penny to the halfpenny rate might actually disturb the equilibrium of the revenue; therefore anything that struck at the penny post could not be entertained....
	www.econlib.org /library/LFBooks/MckyT/mckyPL10.html (4977 words)

	Local Mail Posts in the United States
		The Private Local Posts of the United States; a study of the history of the adhesive stamps with their reprints and forgeries.
		Penny Post served New York City circa 1839-1842 and was predecessor of (Greig's) City Despatch Post.
		The Penny Post is published quarterly by The Carriers and Locals Society, P.O. Box 1574, Dayton, OH 45401.
	www.sil.si.edu /silpublications/postal-history/local-mail-posts (5060 words)

	Penny Post
		As a result Dockwra lost his Penny Post, and it was incorporated into the General Post Office, which had thereby gained an efficient organised postal system.
		From its inception as a government establishment in 1682, the PENNY POST was under the control of the Postmaster General, but was treated as a separate Department.
		To see another letter with a London Penny Post mark go to Life was no fun in 1791.
	www.home.gil.com.au /~ears/penypost.html (494 words)

	Spaulding Penny Post
		Spaulding's Penny Post was opened at 4 Seneca Street on July 4, 1847, by Enos Wilder Spaulding, according to advertisements and notices appearing in Buffalo's Commercial Advertiser.
		Spaulding's Penny Post followed Buffalo's first local, Cutting's Dispatch Post, which was established by Thomas S. Cutting in January 1847 (see lots 1015-1018).
		On October 9, 1849, an advertisement announced the purchase of Spaulding's Penny Post by William Hinwood and Frederick W. Robinson, which became the Hinwood andCo.
	www.siegelauctions.com /enc/carriers/spaulding.html (799 words)

	The Cincinnati Post
		Post readers will see no immediate change in the content or delivery of their newspaper as a result of the notification Scripps received Friday from Gannett.
		Scripps intends to continue publishing the Post newspapers Monday through Saturday afternoons for the duration of the joint operating agreement while actively exploring all options for the future of The Post.
		It was printed by The Cincinnati Post until the joint operating agreement was established, but has always maintained editorial offices on the Kentucky side of the river.
	www.cincypost.com /2004/01/16/post011604.html (996 words)

	Letters from the past - a history Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A foot post took letters from Hull to the nearest point on the postroad, which in this case was Doncaster, to be taken by the Postboys onto London.
		The triangular Dockwra type Government Penny Post stamp is the Head office type, the central letters are G FR G for the main GPO and FR for Friday.
		The London Post, from its inception as a government establishment in 1682, as the Penny Post, (and from 1801 as the Twopenny Post), was under the control of the Postmaster General, but was treated as a separate Department.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~awoodley/Letter2.html (2171 words)

	Davis's Penny Post
		Letters would be delivered within the city or to the post office for 1c each, and a “Special Messenger” service was offered for 5c.
		The small typeset stamps issued by Davis’s Penny Post are rare, with just 14 examples recorded, including four genuine covers (two of these are offered in this sale).
		Elliott Perry, writing in April 1959 to Eugene Costales, the Scott Catalogue editor, noted a variety in which “the y of Penny is a q.” For whatever reason, Costales did not change the Scott listing to reflect Perry’s report.
	www.siegelauctions.com /enc/carriers/davis.htm (737 words)

	Ken Lawrence: Before the Penny Black
		For purposes of this essay, mail is defined as written communication carried from one predetermined place (post or post office) to another on scheduled rounds at uniform rates by a disinterested third party (the postal system), and stamps are printed tokens that denote the franking privilege or prepayment of postage.
		According to the pseudonymous 1883 author, De Velayer's post was described in an 1838 pamphlet by M. Piron of Paris.
		These mailboxes were cleared three times a day, the letters delivered to the central post office, the billets removed (so they could not be used again), and the letters sent on their way.
	www.norbyhus.dk /btpb.html (3164 words)

	Forming Brass from Zinc and Copper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In order to save expensive copper, penny coins, starting in 1983, were made of zinc with a thin layer of copper plated on the surface.
		While these pennies cool, place the pre-1982 penny on the hot plate for 10 minutes or wire gauze for 40 seconds.
		When one of the pennies develops a silver color in the area of the grains remove it from the surface.
	matse1.mse.uiuc.edu /~tw/metals/g.html (501 words)

	Rakehell ~ Articles ~ 19th Century Mail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Penny Post routes operated six days a week and it's rates of a penny were lower than those charged by private carriers, with some charging as high as four pence (4d).
		In 1830, the letter rates for the Penny Post were 4d for 15 miles, 5d for 20 miles and thence according to a sliding scale to 1s for a limit of 300 miles.
		Mail coaches, which were subsidized by the Post Office, were uniformly painted, the lower part of the body being chocolate or mauve; the upper part, the fore and hind boots painted fl; the wheels and under carriage a vivid scarlet.
	www.rakehell.net /article.cfm?id=191&Title=19th_Century_Mail (828 words)

	Penny Post Credit Union for Royal Mail Group employees in the Midlands and Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Penny Post Credit Union for Royal Mail Group employees in the Midlands and Wales
		Penny Post Credit Union is an independant financial co-operative which is owned and controlled by its members.
		Penny Post Credit Union was first registered in 1996.
	www.pennypostcreditunion.co.uk (182 words)

	Uniform Penny Post: - posted on Saturday Apr 4 1840 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Uniform Penny Post was introduced on 10th Jan 1840.
		We should note that there is no envelope, only one sheet of paper, folded like an envelope, and sealed with wax on the back (an envelope would have doubled the postage).
		Before the Penny Post in 1840, it would have cost William Farmer about 7d to send the same letter to his brother in Devizes, about 45 miles away (see postage rates).
	www.imagesoftheworld.org /stamps/ph3.htm (373 words)

	Penny Post Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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	Letters from the past - a history part 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At Holyhead the Post Office kept five or six sailing 'Packets' in readiness to meet the mail coaches, In theory they were to sail daily in both directions.
		The increase in mail on the London to Ireland route resulting from the success of the mail coaches, was a prime factor in the construction of the Menai Bridge to span the Menai Straits (which separates the Isle of Anglesey from the mainland.) This bridge was opened in 1826 and replaced the unpredictable ferry service.
		Compare this example of a letter posted 23 August 1839 from London to Stroud in Gloucester - the cost was 9d (ninepence) for a distance between 80 and 120 miles.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~awoodley/Letter5.html (1242 words)

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