Note 735 — APPENDIXES
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"In the present century the Post Office has assumed three new functions—the transmission of money, and telegrams, and the custody of savings. These are alike only in requiring a widespread system of branch offices."—A. M. Ogilvie's article on "The Post Office" in R. H. Inglis Palgrave's Dict. Political Economy, London, 1899, vol. iii. p. 175.
"The so-called 'Post Office' is in fact a collection of different, though connected, industries."—C. F. Bastable, Public Finance, London, 1903, p. 206.