penny posts
penny posts is the plural of penny post.
Meaning of penny post
Noun
penny post (plural penny posts)
- Any of various postal systems in which a short letter or light package could be sent for the price of one penny, particularly uniform penny post in which the rate applied regardless of distance.
- Alderman Johnson condemns the Reform Act, and is for going backward, in all things, to the good times. Punch humbly suggests that every man who votes for the Crab Alderman should be punished as follows:— The said voter never to be permitted to travel by rail, but to journey to York or elsewhere by...1847, “Vote for Alderman Johnson”, in Punch, volume XIII, page 40
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