Project Gutenberg 2006-11-30 Public domain in the USA. 70 Piron, A. Du service des postes et de la taxation des lettres au moyen d'un timbre Reading ease score: 60.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Rénald Lévesque, The Philatelic Digital Library Project at http://www.tpdlp.net and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Du service des postes et de la taxation des lettres au moyen d'un timbre" by M.A. Piron is a historical account likely written in the early 19th century. The text explores proposed reforms to the French postal system, focusing on the taxation of letters and the implementation of a stamp-based system. It discusses the potential benefits of increasing letter circulation through reduced postal tariffs and improved efficiency, highlighting the relationship between postal services, commerce, and public welfare. The opening of the work provides an introduction to the author's intentions and the context of the postal service in France during the 1830s. Piron outlines his observations on the inefficiencies and high costs associated with current postal rates, pointing to the excessive duration of correspondence delivery as a significant issue. He references historical changes in postal services, mentions the ideas of other reformers, and begins to present statistical evidence supporting a decrease in letter taxation, setting the stage for a more detailed examination of the proposed reforms throughout the upcoming chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Postal service -- France Taxation -- France DC HE Text The Philatelic Digital Library Project FR Services publics Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - European 309051 306019 2024-11-08T15:29:33.477496 2023-09-09T06:24:43.149344 text/html text/html 293487 2006-11-30T17:23:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 343362 2006-11-30T17:23:52 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 429126 2024-11-08T15:29:44.049445 application/epub+zip 432368 2024-11-08T15:29:38.121492 application/epub+zip 172535 2024-11-08T15:29:36.034497 application/epub+zip 1219577 2024-11-08T15:29:47.799519 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1195725 2024-11-08T15:29:42.326500 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 390219 2022-09-09T12:13:02.235436 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 273001 272649 2024-11-08T15:29:32.561541 2023-09-09T06:24:42.383330 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 266807 2006-11-30T17:23:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 87171 2006-11-30T17:23:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20179 2024-11-08T15:29:47.935462 application/rdf+xml 23264 2024-11-08T15:29:36.597496 image/jpeg 4506 2024-11-08T15:29:36.317486 image/jpeg 434840 2024-11-08T15:29:33.522508 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog