Show First Penny Postage Trial Inaugurated in England in 1840 1840 Long 1840 Long After in Canada The first trial of or cheap postage was the system of penny postage inaugurated inaugurated rated In England January The Idea that letters could be forwarded forwarded for tor warded to any part of or England and delivered for tor only a penny seemed absurd to most Englishmen and imd they predicted speedy failure for the est It Is unnecessary to point out that they proved to be poor prophets observes a writer In the New York World On this side of the Atlantic the much greater distances seemed to preclude preclude pre pre- clude elude the adoption of or any such measure measure measure meas meas- ure as a u low tint Hat rate role for letters At Atthe Atthe Atthe the time Great Britain adopted penny postage the in the United Slates States were For 30 miles mUes anc ant and under 0 a cents 30 to CO GO miles 8 cents GO 60 to miles 10 cents and over miles mUes a proportionate increase so that thata a letter dispatched a n distance of ot miles cost 25 cents With the adoption of Rowland Hills Hill's penny l postage system England also adopted his suggestion that the difficulties difficulties attending prepayment of postage postage postage post post- age might be overcome by using a abit abit abit bit of paper large Jarge enough to bear the stamp and covering the back with a glutinous wash which by applying a little moisture might be bo attached to the back of the letter Thus the theo postage o t ge stamp was born and the there l I came into existence those little scraps of ot paper which are now collected by millions of men and boys bos the world ov over r. r and som some o 01 which hI ell because oo ot their rarity are worth thousands of ot dollars An approach to the penny postage of ot Great Britain was made In 1851 when cent 3 postage was adopted in inthe inthe inthe the United States Adhesive posta postage e stamps had previously been Introduced on this side of the Atlantic In 1847 Later postage was reduced to 2 cents In the United States In 1883 1853 but it was not until some years later that Canada toll followed wc l the example of ot her mother country by instituting the penny posta postage e. |