Note 246 — Chapter XXIX
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In 1867, proceedings were taken against the Circular Delivery Company “for delivering letters contrary to the privilege of the Postmaster-General.” This Company delivered circulars at a very low rate. “The proper mode of proceeding,” Sir Rowland Hill recorded in his Journal, “would have been to adopt a plan which I long ago frequently discussed with the Assistant-Secretaries, and which has, I believe, been recently proposed in writing by my son, viz., to undertake the delivery of circulars at reduced rates (say a halfpenny), on certain conditions made with a view to the convenience of the Post-Office. * * * “I do not like an enforcement of the monopoly. It covers mismanagement.”—Ed.