The uniform fourpenny post was a short-lived uniform pre-paid letter rate in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that lasted for 36 days from 5...

links, education, commerce and social cohesion.[citation needed] Uniform Fourpenny Post Penny Black Postage Act 1839 Postage stamps and postal history of...

1839 the Uniform Fourpenny Post was introduced by the General Post Office but lasted only 36 days until 9 January 1840 when the Uniform Penny Post replaced...

reform started when postage rates were revised by the short-lived Uniform Fourpenny Post. Rowland Hill, an English teacher, inventor and social reformer...

should be a uniform rate that was put into effect with the introduction of the Uniform Fourpenny Post supplanted by the Uniform Penny Post in 1839 and...

reverse the steady financial losses of the Post Office. Hill convinced Parliament to adopt the Uniform Fourpenny Post whereby a flat 4d per half ounce rate...

Bayswater, London, and there is an LCC plaque there in his honour. The uniform fourpenny post rate lowered the cost to fourpence from 5 December 1839, then to...

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Scottish Post Offices united under the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, 31 years after the Act of Union 1839 5 December - Uniform Fourpenny Post starts...

Ulster Railway is opened between Belfast and Lisburn. 5 December - Uniform Fourpenny Post introduced in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, a major...

are recorded in shorthand. 10 January – Uniform Penny Post introduced, replacing the Uniform Fourpenny Post of 1839. 12 January – Chartist rising in...

initiated the Fourpenny Post and within 36 days led to the drop in the cost of postage from four pence to the one penny under the Uniform Penny Post. Less than...

Inspectors of Schools for grant-aided establishments. 5 December – Uniform Fourpenny Post introduced, a major postal reform, whereby 4d is levied for pre-paid...

– Lord Boyle 10 January – Uniform Penny Post introduced throughout the United Kingdom, replacing the Uniform Fourpenny Post of 1839. From 6 May, the Penny...

heavy penalties on blasphemous and seditious publications; imposing a fourpenny stamp act on many pamphlets to cut down the flow on news and criticism...

the Frankish emperor Charlemagne cut through the mess by creating a new uniform system. He defined the "libra" as a new measure of weight equivalent to...

heavy penalties on blasphemous and seditious publications; imposing a fourpenny stamp act on many pamphlets to cut down the flow on news and criticism...