penny post

But the printer will stand to it, and not own the author; he must say he had it from the penny-post.

I have not seen your mother yet; my penny-post letter, I suppose, miscarried: I will write another.

But this has not been the case, I am sorry to say, of late; for the penny-post has become the sole channel of my inspirations.

There are, of course, two aspects in which to contemplate the measure of penny-post reform.