Shetland Isles, 39, 79, 116, 156, 217, 219 Shrewsbury, 79 Sikes, Sir C. W., 138 Skye, 217 Smirke, Mr., 49, 55 “Snooper in,” 190 Solicitor to Post Office, 267 Sorting carriages, 73, 74 Sorting of letters and parcels, 60, 61, 88 South Africa, 253 South America, 243 Southampton, 218 South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 75, 302 Southsea, 286 Spain— Leisured methods, 211 Postal service, 236 Spanish swindle, 114 Special Events Section, 166 Steam motors, 101 Stephen, Justice, 185 Stephenson, George, 31 Stock certificates, 140 Stock Exchange, 173 Stores Department— Early beginnings, 45 Offices, 68 Business, 200 Sale of stores, 205 _Stow's Survey_, 43 Straits Settlements, 84, 245, 328 Studd Street, 68 Submarine cables, 156, 160, 191 Sub-Postmaster— Qualifications, 289 Increase of duties, 292 Troubles, 294 Hereditary, 295 Applications for, 300 Sub-Postmistress— Qualifications, 296 Methods, 297 Difficulties with, 302 Suez— Mail route, 214 Canal, 215 Sunday deliveries, 326 Surveyors, 267 “Swan with Two Necks,” 27 Switzerland— Money Orders, 131 Postal facilities, 232 Tamworth, 75 Tangiers, 81 Taplow, 104 Telegraph Act (1869), 184 Telegraphs— Offices, 56, 67 Early history, 155 Transfer to State, 156 Charges, 158 Breakdown, 159 News Section, 165 Special Section, 166 Long distance, 167 Timing of, 170 Loss on, 189 Telegraph Construction Act (1908), 199 Telegraph instruments, 160, 204 Telegraph poles, 198, 203, 204 Telegraph Street, E.C., 161 Telegraphists— Scales of pay, 173 In war, 336 Telephone Company, 183 Telephones— Effect on telegraph, 176 Early beginnings, 181 Parliament's action, 185 London service, 186 Decision to purchase, 187 Subscribers, 188 United States, 189 Long distance calls, 190, 193 Exchange, 191 Farmers, 193 Telephone-telegram business, 163 Telewriter, 177 Telford, 27 _Teutonic_, 213 Thomson, Sir William, 183 Threadneedle Street, E.C., 173 Tie-on labels, 94 Tilley, Sir John, K.C.B., 264 Tintagel, 301 Tranavoe, 81, 255 Travelling Post Office— Romance, 69 First service, 71 Apparatus, 75 Disasters, 79 Mail bags, 203 Oversea mails, 213 Treasury, 264 Trinidad, 328 Trollope, Anthony, 41, 52, 53, 267 Trouble-man, 190 _Truth_, 329 Tuke, Brian, 19 Tunbridge Wells, 22 _Ulster_, 218 _Umbria_, 213 Undelivered packets— Numbers, 110 Stories of, 113-123 South African War, 337 Underground wires, 178, 187, 190, 196, 199, 233 Uniform (_see_ Post Office Uniform) Union Castle Line, 216 _Union Postale_, 227 United States— Letters to, 64 Money Orders, 131 Telephone service, 189 Weather, 190 Postal Union, 224 Postal service, 238 Postmaster-General's reports, 241