FOOT-PRINTS
OF A
LETTER-CARRIER;
OR,
A History of the World’s Correspondence:
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