THE LATER MAILS 



Self. 

 Inside, to Ferrybridge . 

 „ „ Greta Bridge 

 „ „ Carlisle 

 „ „ Glasgow 



Servant. 

 Outside, to Ferrybridge 

 „ „ Greta Bridge 

 „ „ Carlisle 

 „ „ Glasgow . 



Tips. 

 Inside, 6 long-stage coachmen @ 2s. 



„ 12 short-stage coachmen @ Is. 



„ 7 guards @ 2s. each . 

 Outside, for man, @ half price above 



Total . 



d. 



10 8 



2 17 

 £19 10 



Siicli were the costs and cliarges of a gentle- 

 man travelling to joay a country visit in 1812, 

 exclusive of hotel bills for self and servant on 

 the way. 



The great factor in the acceleration of the 

 mails was the improvement in the roads, a 

 work carried out by the Turnpike Trusts in 

 fear of the Post Office, whose surveyors had the 

 power, under ancient Acts, of indicting roads in 

 had condition. Great bitterness was stirred up 

 over this matter. The growing commercial and 

 industrial towns — Glasgow prominent among 

 them— naturally desired direct mail-services, and 

 the Post Office, using their needs as means 

 for obtaining, not only roads kept in good con- 

 dition, but sometimes entirely new roads and 

 short cuts, declined to start such services until 

 such routes were provided. It was not within 

 the power of the Department to compel new 



