"He circulated mail to 17 shops in the city (effectively post offices) and employed 4 uniformed postmen. Their hats read ""Penny Post"" and were numbered 1,4,8 and 16 to make the business look bigger. On 5 December 1839 the Uniform Fourpenny Post was introduced by the General Post Office but lasted only 36 days until 9 January 1840 when the Uniform Penny Post was introduced. The penny post box was green. In 1835 Rowland Hill published a pamphlet entitled 'Post Office Reform' which led to various reforms and the introduction of the first postage stamp and convinced Parliament to implement"
"London Penny Post The London Penny Post was a premier postal system whose function was to deliver mail within London and its immediate suburbs for the modest sum of one penny. The Penny Post was established in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partner, Robert Murray. Dockwra was a merchant and a member of the Armourer and Brasiers Livery Company and was appointed a Customs Under-Searcher for the Port of London in 1663. Murray would later become clerk in the excise office of the Penny Post. The London Penny Post mail service was launched with weeks of publicity preceding"
"Penny Post The Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one penny. Five such schemes existed in the United Kingdom while the United States initiated at least three such simple fixed rate postal arrangements. In England, the postal service, from 1660 General Post Office, had developed into a monopoly, affirmed by Oliver Cromwell in 1654, for the collection and carriage of letters between post towns, however, there was no delivery system until William Dockwra and his partner Robert Murray established the London Penny Post in 1680. They set up a"
"the London Penny Post. London Penny Post The London Penny Post was a premier postal system whose function was to deliver mail within London and its immediate suburbs for the modest sum of one penny. The Penny Post was established in 1680 by William Dockwra and his business partner, Robert Murray. Dockwra was a merchant and a member of the Armourer and Brasiers Livery Company and was appointed a Customs Under-Searcher for the Port of London in 1663. Murray would later become clerk in the excise office of the Penny Post. The London Penny Post mail service was launched with"
"1879. Horatio D. Sheppard Horatio Davis Sheppard (c. 1809 - February 24, 1879) (sometimes spelled Horatio Shepard) was an American physician who in 1833 founded the first penny press newspaper in the United States, the ""New York Morning Post"". In 1830, Sheppard was a medical student with no real experience in publishing, but he had witnessed the populace of New York City willing to buy anything that cost a penny. For over a year he approached printing offices to propose that a paper could be successfully sold at a penny price, but had no luck convincing anyone until meeting Francis"
"Horatio D. Sheppard Horatio Davis Sheppard (c. 1809 - February 24, 1879) (sometimes spelled Horatio Shepard) was an American physician who in 1833 founded the first penny press newspaper in the United States, the ""New York Morning Post"". In 1830, Sheppard was a medical student with no real experience in publishing, but he had witnessed the populace of New York City willing to buy anything that cost a penny. For over a year he approached printing offices to propose that a paper could be successfully sold at a penny price, but had no luck convincing anyone until meeting Francis Story."
"General Post Office. In 1765, Parliament authorized the creation of Penny Posts in any town or city of the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. The single postage rate of one penny was charged within the area, calculated by weight. By the beginning of the 19th century there were many of these, identifiable on covers, with markings such as ""PP"", ""Py Post"", or ""Penny Post"" along with the name of the town. The early penny post system in Edinburgh, founded in 1773/4 by Peter Williamson, known as ""Indian Peter,"" usefully combined it with one of the world's first street directories."
"business. He is believed to have been poor at his death. William Dockwra William Dockwra (c. 1635–1716) was an English merchant who along with his partner Robert Murray created the first Penny Post in London in 1680. He was also the founder of British independent Slave Trade. In latter 17th century London there was no official postal system for mail delivery within the city of London and its suburbs. Dockwra's London Penny Post was a mail delivery system that fulfilled this need. His system worked so well that it compromised the interests of private couriers and porters and royal officials"
"Penny (comic strip) Penny was a comic strip about a teenage girl by Harry Haenigsen which maintained its popularity for almost three decades. It was distributed by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate from 1943 to 1970. ""Penny"" began because Helen Rogers Reid, the wife of the ""New York Herald Tribune"" publisher Ogden Mills Reid, wanted to see a girl as the central character of a new comic strip. Haenigsen had been doing a strip about a teenage boy, ""Our Bill"", when he launched ""Penny"" on June 20, 1943. The prolific cartoonist Bill Hoest was Haenigsen's assistant on ""Penny"". After"
"other and cooperating with each other in the way of saving souls."" The paper's circulation quickly quadrupled. On February 11, 1883, the paper was given a more distinctive name, ""The Penny Post"", because ""Penny Paper"" was ""more of a description of the paper than a name"". In July, the Scripps family assumed full ownership of the company, with E. W. having a controlling interest. It was the first paper that he had ever owned. It became ""The Evening Post"" on October 11, 1883 though the price would remain at one penny until 1918. On September 2, 1890, it was finally"
"crisis was no coincidence. It was announced on 22 March 1679 in the ""Mercurius Civicus"", a Whig paper. It has been claimed that the opposition leader Lord Shaftesbury was a backer of the scheme, as he was of the paper. Murray with William Dockwra opened for business with a penny post service on 27 March 1680. They offered to take letters ""to any part of the City, or Suburbs"", for a penny. Hugh Chamberlen and perhaps Henry Neville Payne were partners. The scheme was initially denounced by Titus Oates, because Payne who claimed a share in the concept was a"
"platform to promote the Whig and the later Republican Parties. Quite possibly the most famous penny press paper was started in 1851 by two men: George Jones (publisher) and Henry Raymond. This paper was originally named ""The New York Daily Times"", but was later changed to ""The New York Times"" in 1857. Originally sold at one cent per paper, it became famous for incorporating journalistic standards that are common today, as well as having very high quality reporting and writing. The first issue of the ""New York Daily Times"" addressed the various speculations about its purpose and positions that preceded"
"William Dockwra William Dockwra (c. 1635–1716) was an English merchant who along with his partner Robert Murray created the first Penny Post in London in 1680. He was also the founder of British independent Slave Trade. In latter 17th century London there was no official postal system for mail delivery within the city of London and its suburbs. Dockwra's London Penny Post was a mail delivery system that fulfilled this need. His system worked so well that it compromised the interests of private couriers and porters and royal officials alike. Dockwra was born in the City of London, the son"
"Penny Black The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in Great Britain on 1 May 1840, but was not valid for use until 6 May. It features a profile of Queen Victoria. In 1837, British postal rates were high, complex and anomalous. To simplify matters, Sir Rowland Hill proposed an adhesive stamp to indicate pre-payment of postage. At the time it was normal for the recipient to pay postage on delivery, charged by the sheet and on distance travelled. By contrast, the Penny Black allowed letters of"
"system. For the centenary of the first stamp, Portugal issued a miniature sheet with 8 stamps mentioning his name, later on his death centenary omnibus issue of stamps commemorating Hill were produced by approximately 80 countries. Altogether, 147 countries have issued stamps commemorating him. Rowland Hill Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters. Hill later"
"Rowland Hill Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer. He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of prepayment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters. Hill later served as a government postal official, and he is usually credited with originating the basic concepts of the modern postal service, including the invention of the postage stamp. Hill was born in Blackwell Street, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. Rowland's father, Thomas Wright Hill, was an"
"Benjamin Day (publisher) Benjamin Henry Day (April 10, 1810 – December 21, 1889) was an American newspaper publisher best known for founding the ""New York Sun"", the first penny press newspaper in the United States, in 1833. Day was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on April 10, 1810, to Henry Day, a hatter, and Mary Ely. Day started his printing career in 1824, at the ""Springfield Republican"". In 1835, Day's ""Sun"" was responsible for publishing a story written by Richard Adams Locke about life on the moon that was fictional, but was received by the general public as fact. The publicity"
"except for Australia and New Zealand, who would not benefit from it until 1905. In 1908 it was extended to America. The Penny Post rate ended in Great Britain in 1918. In the United States, Spaulding's Penny Post operated in Buffalo, New York from 1847 to 1850. Davis' Penny Post operated in Baltimore, Maryland for several weeks of February 1856, leaving behind a handful of rare stamps. The Penny Post is the journal of the Carriers and Locals Society, and was also the original name of ""The Cincinnati Post"". Penny Post The Penny Post is any one of several postal"
"Local post A local post is a mail service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route. Historically, some local posts have been operated by governments, while others, known as private local posts have been for-profit companies. Today, many stamp collectors operate hobbyists' local posts, issuing their own postal ""stamps"" for other collectors but rarely carrying any mail. Government local posts go back to at least 1680, when the Penny Post was established in London to handle intra-city mail delivery at a uniform rate of one penny. From 1840 onwards, when postage"
"""The Penny Postage Scheme of 1837"", Scotsman Patrick Chalmers claimed that his father, James Chalmers, published an essay in August 1834 describing and advocating a postage stamp, but submitted no evidence of the essay's existence. Nevertheless, until he died in 1891, Patrick Chalmers campaigned to have his father recognized as the inventor of the postage stamp. Until his death i The first independent evidence for Chalmers' claim is an essay, dated 8 February 1838 and received by the Post Office on 17 February 1838, in which he proposed adhesive postage stamps to the General Post Office. In this approximately 800-word"
"Uniform Penny Post The Uniform Penny Post was a component of the comprehensive reform of the Royal Mail, the UK's official postal service, that took place in the 19th century. The reforms were a government initiative to eradicate the abuse and corruption of the existing service. Under the reforms, the postal service became a government monopoly, but it also became more accessible to the British population at large through setting a charge of one penny for carriage and delivery between any two places in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland irrespective of distance. Richard Cobden and John Ramsey"
"written by freelancer Tom Burgis. Problems securing funding and advertising in the wake of the launch two daily freesheets (the Associated Newspapers’ ""London Lite"" and News International’s ""thelondonpaper"") meant that the paper ceased publication shortly after the second issue. After the paper closed, Wendling worked for BBC Radio, while Christensen founded the London-based social networking website FridayCities.com. The Penny The Penny was a planned free alternative newspaper for London, based on the model of New York’s ""Village Voice"" and other North American alternative weeklies. The paper’s initial launch team including publisher Savannah Christensen and editor Mike Wendling produced a pilot"
"The Penny Magazine The Penny Magazine was an illustrated British magazine aimed at the working class, published every Saturday from 31 March 1832 to 31 October 1845. Charles Knight created it for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in response to ""Chambers's Edinburgh Journal"", which started two months earlier. Sold for only a penny and illustrated with wood-engravings, it was an expensive enterprise that could only be supported by very large circulation. Though initially very successful—with a circulation of 200,000 in the first year—it proved too dry and too Whiggish to appeal to the working-class audience it needed"
"Nabokov wrote the following description of ""Penny"" into his novel ""Lolita"": ""Her eyes would follow the adventures of her favorite strip characters; there was one well-drawn sloppy bobby-soxer with high cheekbones and angular gestures, that I was not above enjoying myself."" Penny (comic strip) Penny was a comic strip about a teenage girl by Harry Haenigsen which maintained its popularity for almost three decades. It was distributed by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate from 1943 to 1970. ""Penny"" began because Helen Rogers Reid, the wife of the ""New York Herald Tribune"" publisher Ogden Mills Reid, wanted to see a"
"much needed reforms in the current postal system. On 10 January 1840, the Uniform Penny Post was established throughout the UK, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap conveyance of letters, and from 6 May could be prepaid with the first postage stamp, known as the Penny Black. Elihu Burritt proposed that a fixed rate of one penny be established for all mail throughout the entire British Empire as a means of facilitating international interaction and international unity. This was known as the Ocean Penny Post. On Christmas Day, 1898, the Imperial Penny Post extended the rate throughout the British Empire"
"postage stamp. In 1680, William Dockwra, an English merchant in London, and his partner Robert Murray established the London Penny Post, a mail system that delivered letters and small parcels inside the city of London for the sum of one penny. Confirmation of paid postage was indicated by the use of a hand ""stamp"" to frank the mailed item. Though this 'stamp' was applied to the letter or parcel itself, rather than to a separate piece of paper, it is considered by many historians to be the world's first postage stamp. In 1835, the Slovene civil servant Lovrenc Košir from"
"local post that used a uniform rate of one old penny for delivery of letters and packets weighing up to one pound within the cities of Westminster and London as well as in Southwark. Several deliveries took place a day within the city, and items were also delivered to addresses up to ten miles outside London for an extra charge of one penny. In 1683 Dockwra was forced to surrender the Penny Post to the English Monarchy for circulating what were considered seditious newsletters sharply criticizing the Duke of York, who was in charge of and directly benefited from the"
"William Miller Christy William Miller Christy (1778–1858) was an English Quaker hat and textile manufacturer, known also as a banker. He is credited with the invention of the penny receipt-stamp. He was the second son of Miller Christy (1748–1820) and Ann Rist. The Christy family had a hat-making business at 35 Gracechurch Street, and Christy himself was apprenticed to a hatter. The firm developed manufacturing interests in Bermondsey and Stockport, and Christy was a founder of the London Joint Stock Bank. In 1824 he was a founder of Christy, Lloyd & Co, the Stockport and East Cheshire Bank, with Isaac"
"senders could submit items. All post was transferred from the post office of origination to distribution points called sorting stations, and from there the post was then sent on for delivery to the receiver of the post. Initially it was the recipient of the post who paid the fee, and he had the right to refuse to accept the item if he did not wish to pay. The charge was based on the distance the item had been carried so the GPO had to keep a separate account for each item. In 1840 the Uniform Penny Post was introduced, which"
"post office. It also compromised the business interests of porters and private couriers. The Penny Post was also involved in publishing various criticisms towards the British monarchy, the Duke of York in particular, which ultimately led to the take over of the Penny Post by crown authorities. The earliest known Penny Post postmark is dated 13 December 1680 and is considered by some to be the world's first postage 'stamp'. Prior to the advent of the London Penny Post there was only one General Letter Office in London and Westminster to receive and deliver the mail that was bound for"
"its predecessor ""The Penny Post"" first appeared in Portsmouth. ""The Penny Post"" (named for its newsstand price) within two years was claiming to have the largest circulation base in New England. The ""Post"" adopted the name ""Portsmouth Herald"" in mid-1897, and cost 2 cents per issue. Traced back through the history of its sister papers, however, the ""Herald"" has an even longer pedigree. In 1891, F.W. Hartford took over ""The Penny Post"" and initiated a newspaper war with two of the city's longest established papers, the ""Morning Chronicle"" (daily since 1852) and the weekly ""New Hampshire Gazette"" (the state's oldest"
"the century, as the beaver hat went out of style. Miller married Ann Fell, and they had seven sons and three daughters. The second son was Henry Christy. William Miller Christy William Miller Christy (1778–1858) was an English Quaker hat and textile manufacturer, known also as a banker. He is credited with the invention of the penny receipt-stamp. He was the second son of Miller Christy (1748–1820) and Ann Rist. The Christy family had a hat-making business at 35 Gracechurch Street, and Christy himself was apprenticed to a hatter. The firm developed manufacturing interests in Bermondsey and Stockport, and Christy"
"world, relating stories of local posts, showing new issues and other related items. Local post A local post is a mail service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route. Historically, some local posts have been operated by governments, while others, known as private local posts have been for-profit companies. Today, many stamp collectors operate hobbyists' local posts, issuing their own postal ""stamps"" for other collectors but rarely carrying any mail. Government local posts go back to at least 1680, when the Penny Post was established in London to handle intra-city mail"