Penny Postage System Introduced

Rowland Hill's uniform penny post democratized written communication by replacing distance-based fees, enabling mass correspondence and accelerating information flow across industrial society.

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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.

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