Postal Heritage: 9 Classic Books on the History of Mail Services
Nine Classic Works on Postal Reform, Global Mail Routes, and the Culture of CorrespondenceBy James Holbrook, Robert Charles Tombs, W. H. Gantz, William Lewins, Moses James Nobbs, James MacQueen, Rabindranath Tagore
Length67h 35m
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Postal Heritage gathers nine classic books that illuminate the mail as institution, technology, social habit, and imaginative subject. Ranging from documentary history and administrative reflection to travel-inflected observation and literary narrative, the volume places postal systems within the larger histories of commerce, empire, communication, and everyday connection. Its inclusion of both practical accounts of mail services and more evocative treatments of correspondence and distance gives the collection unusual breadth, while its classic texts preserve the changing language through which modern networks were understood. The contributors bring together historians, journalists, commentators, and literary figures whose writings emerge from differing national and cultural horizons. Their collective perspectives trace the postal service's role in organizing states, linking communities, circulating news, and mediating intimate human relations. Particularly significant is the encounter between British-oriented institutional histories and Rabindranath Tagore's presence, which broadens the anthology's cultural frame beyond a solely administrative or metropolitan account. Together, these voices situate postal history within nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates about mobility, modernization, imperial reach, and the human consequences of communication. This volume is recommended for readers of communication history, transport studies, imperial culture, and classic literature. It offers a valuable opportunity to compare styles, assumptions, and historical scales within a single volume, fostering a productive dialogue between technical record, cultural analysis, and imaginative writing.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length67 hrs 35 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Postal Service
2The Postal Service
3FOREWORD
4CHAPTER I. CRADLE DAYS OF THE POSTAL SERVICE.
5CHAPTER II. WHAT IS REQUIRED OF CANDIDATES.
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6CHAPTER III. SALARIES AND OPPORTUNITIES.
7CHAPTER IV. WHERE AND HOW TO OBTAIN APPLICATION.
8CHAPTER V. OFFICES IN NEW YORK STATE.
9CHAPTER VI. QUESTIONS TO BE FILLED OUT IN APPLICATION.
10CHAPTER VII. MEDICAL CERTIFICATE.
11CHAPTER VIII. THE EDUCATIONAL TEST.
12CHAPTER IX. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION.
13CHAPTER X. HOW COMPETITORS ARE JUDGED.
14CHAPTER XI. THE ELIGIBLE REGISTER.
15CHAPTER XII. RULES FOR RATING.
16CHAPTER XIII. DISTRICT REGULATIONS.
17CHAPTER XIV. EXAMINATION IN THE FAR EAST.
18CHAPTER XV. RULES FOR LETTER CARRIERS.
19CHAPTER XVI. DELIVERY AND COLLECTING OF MAIL BY CARRIERS.
20CHAPTER XVII. SPECIAL DELIVERY MESSENGERS.
21CHAPTER XVIII. THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL OF THE POSTAL SERVICE.
22CHAPTER XIX. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
23CHAPTER XX. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
24CHAPTER XXI. AMENDMENTS
25CHAPTER XXII. STATIONS of the POST OFFICE, NEW YORK, N. Y.
26A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam
27A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam
28INTRODUCTION.
29RECAPITULATION.
30PACIFIC DEPARTMENT.
31GEOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE ISTHMUS OF AMERICA, and the practicability of A COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA AND NEW SOUTH WALES WESTWARD THROUGH IT.
32APPENDIX—No I
33APPENDIX, No. II.—EASTERN WORLD.
34The King's Post
35PREFACE.
36CHAPTER V.
37CHAPTER VI.
38CHAPTER IX.
39CHAPTER XII.
40CHAPTER XV.
41CHAPTER XVIII.
42The Bristol Royal Mail: Post, Telegraph, and Telephone
43THE BRISTOL ROYAL MAIL.
44CHAPTER III.
45CHAPTER VI.
46CHAPTER VIII.
47CHAPTER X.
48CHAPTER XIV.
49CHAPTER XVIII.
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