With an increase in the number of valuable articles carried by post and better arrangements for their safe keeping, it was found possible to reduce the registration fee from 11_d._ to 6_d._, then to 4_d._ and eventually to 2_d._ At the time of the first reduction, a rule was issued for the compulsory registration by the Post Office of all letters unquestionably containing coin, for the sake of letter carriers and others rather than the protection of the public. The Post Office did not at the time of the first reduction hold itself responsible for the full value of the contents of a lost registered letter but was accustomed to remunerate the sender where the contents were proved, were of moderate amount, and the fault clearly lay with the Post Office. In 1878 it agreed to make good up to £2 the value of the contents of any registered letter which it lost, stipulating in the case of money that it had been sent securely and in one of its own envelopes. Compulsory registration by the Post Office was also extended to include uncrossed cheques and postal orders to which the name of the payee had not been appended.[682] [682] _Rep._ P. G., 1862, pp. 9-10; 1879, p. 13; 1897, p. 5. An inland parcel post was not established in England until 1883. An initial rate of 3_d._ was imposed for the first pound, increasing by increments of 3_d._ to 1_s._ for the seventh pound. Later the maximum weight was increased to 11 pounds, the maximum charge to 1_s._ 6_d._ In 1905 a further reduction followed on parcels weighing more than four pounds.[683] [683] _Ibid._, 1896, p. 3; 1882, p. 3; 1906, p. 1. The use of postcards was first permitted in England in 1870, a charge of a halfpenny a dozen being made in addition to the stamp. In 1875 this additional charge was increased to a penny a dozen for thin cards, 2_d._ for stout cards. In 1899 these prices were reduced to a penny for ten stout cards, a halfpenny for ten thin ones, and the latter began rapidly to displace the former. Private post cards were first allowed to pass through the post in 1894 for a halfpenny each, and two years later the charge on unpaid inland post cards was reduced from 2_d._ to a penny.[684] At the same time that the use of post cards was allowed, a half penny post was introduced for certain classes of formal printed documents.[685] [684] _Ibid._, 1896, p. 2; 1889, p. 2; 1897, p. 5; 1895, p. 18. [685] _Ibid._, 1903, p. 5.