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[nb 1] for carriage and delivery between any two places in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland irrespective of distance.[1][2][3]
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- ^ Ince, Henry; Gikbert, James (1860). English History. London: W. Kent & Co. p. 296.
- ^ Brewer, Rev. Ebenezer Cobham (1853). Poetical chronology of inventions, discoveries &c.… from the conquest. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. p. 143.
- ^ History of Postal Services, Bath: Postal Museum, archived from the original on 2011-05-24.