The Duke of Norfolk's 1897 concession of free delivery of telegrams for all distances under three miles has been appreciated by all those concerned.
At the present day (1868) the work is so far advanced that to many readers the very term "free delivery" must have lost its significance.
An anomaly the more remarkable because if addressed anywhere beyond the narrow limits of what was termed the "free delivery," every newspaper bore a postal charge.
The Report of 1888 announces the extension of free delivery by letter carriers to Victoria, B.
For many years the postal service was operated at a loss, the principal causes of the deficit being due to the loss sustained by the government on the transportation of second-class matter and through the rural free delivery service.
In 1843 the government of Sir Robert Peel laid down the following principle: "All places the letters for which exceed one hundred per week should be entitled to a receiving office and a free delivery of letters.
Sandwich, however, was a place where there had been a free delivery of part of the letters at least.
The Postmasters-General were very much disturbed at this decision and still more disturbed lest the courts might decide for free delivery in other post towns, which had always paid.
The General Post letters, however, are distributed on the same principle of free delivery, without extra charge, and the utmost diligence is used by the letter-carriers to find out the persons to whom letters are directed.
That is, to decide in how many and what towns there shall be a Free Delivery, and how far from the post-office the Free Delivery shall be carried, experience must be the guide.
A free delivery of letters would increase the revenue by causing the greater portion of the drop letters to be sent through the post-office, instead of the private offices now established in different parts of the city.
There the question was not whether there should be a free delivery, for at Gloucester letters had always been delivered free, but whether certain houses should fall within the limits of that delivery.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free delivery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
