FOOT-PRINTS OF A LETTER-CARRIER;

OR

CONTAINING

BIOGRAPHIES, TALES, SKETCHES, INCIDENTS, AND STATISTICS CONNECTED WITH POSTAL HISTORY. BY JAMES REES, CLERK IN THE PHILADELPHIA POST-OFFICE.

“The Post-Office is properly a mercantile project. The government advances the expense of establishing the different offices, and of buying or hiring the necessary horses or carriages, and is repaid with a large profit by the duties upon what is carried.”

Smith, Wealth of Nations.

“A Messenger with Letters.”—Spenser.

PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1866.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.