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1 Annuity Notes
II ModePlan of Sale

[1] [ Sub-Offices....the existing Post Offices]

The system of Post-Offices - of General 1
The Establishment
of Post Offices
perfectly apposite
and adequate to
this business

Post Offices in the Country District — of Penny
Post Offices in the District of the Metropolis - presents
a fortunate example of a system of Offices
already organized- [+]and already established in existence.- fashioned- if not to this very [+] organiz fashioned
in the best manner.

business, to a business nearly approaching to it
and notlittle, if at all, more simple. — To this establishment
is proposed to be committed not only the
business of vendingissu and issuing The Annuity Notes themselves
- but that of handing over the Dividends to Acc
Proprietor of each Note. For both those businesses
Forms have been framed, and are given below:
In each Form are necessarily a few blanks: but
these blanks are so few, and the quantity of
writing necessaryrequisite to fill them up so small,
and the matter of that writing so determinate -
that neither can any person who is capable of transacting the
business of a p Penny Post Office experience any be at a loss
differently in regard to this, nor will then as there, even in
regard to the quantity of business in each transaction will there be found requisiting any difference worth
regarding.. In the existing business of the Penny Post
the money is removed from the individual, a couple
of stamps are impressed - and the packets of the letters made up
from twice to six times a day into so many parcels - and the
several parcels delivered, at so many times of delivery,
to so many Messengers, who carry them to oneof


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