Payment of money orders at houses of payees, 77, 99 Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, Charter of incorporation of, 123, 127 Penjdeh Affair, 84 Penny Postage Scheme, Imperial, 40 Persian Expedition, 167 Persian Gulf and Turkish Arabia, Insurance system in the, 141 Persian Gulf, The Post Office in Mesopotamia and the, 137 Personnel of the Post Office, 189 Phulkian States, Conventions with, 114 Pishin Field Force, 214 Polymetrical tables, 33 Post, Bhangy, 26, 29, 33, 48 Post, District, 16, 17 Post, District, Abolition of, 20 Post Office Act-- of 1837, 17, 26 of 1838, 29 of 1839, 29 of 1854, 2, 31 of 1866, 38 of 1882, 42 of 1895, 42 of 1896, 42 of 1898, 42 of 1912, 46 Post Office, Branch, 4, 94 Post Office buildings, 106 Post Office, Experimental, 20, 96 Post Office, Field, 166 Post Office, Head, 3 Post Office Manual, 2, 36 Post Office, Origin of, 10 Post Office, Sub, 3 Post Office, Travelling, 58 Post free, Grant to certain persons of privilege of sending and receiving correspondence, 27 Postage rates, 28, 38, 55 Postage stamps, Introduction of, 31, 32, 178, 179 Postal Life Insurance, 42 Postal Manual (War), 166 Postcards, Abolition of unpaid, 7 Postcards, Introduction of, 7 Postcards, Unpaid, 7 Postman, 97 Postman, Village or rural, 4, 94, 100 Postmaster, Deputy, 155, 193 Postmaster, Probationary, 190 Postmaster-General, First appointment of, 14, 193 Prepayment of postage, Encouragement of, 34 Prepayment of postage in all cases, Compulsory, Rejection of, 25 Presidency Postmaster, 16, 30, 31 Private posts, 17 Probationary Postmaster, 190 Probationary Superintendent, 189 Professional letter-writers, 94 Public Proceedings of 7th July, 1766, Extract from, 13 Quinine, Sale of, 4, 96 Railway Conference Association, 49, 67 Railway Mail Service, 58 Railways, Introduction of, 30 Rates of postage, 28, 38, 55 Receipt stamp, Abolition of special, 183 Redirected letters, Abolition of charge on, 39 Registered newspapers, 43 Registration, 35 Registration fee to be prepaid in postage stamps, 39 Regular postal system introduced by Lord Clive, 12 Regulations, Early Postal, 26 Regulations, Later Postal, 38 Rent money orders, 76 Rented buildings for post offices, 106, 110 Returned Letter Office at Basra, 172 Revenue-producing, Department never regarded as, 9, 22 Riddell, Mr. H. B., 36, 154, 163 Runner, Mail, 4 Rural postman, 4, 94, 100 Russian Scare, 84 Salonika, Field service in, 173 Savings bank, 81 Savings bank balances, Effect of Great War upon, 87 Savings bank, statement showing work from 1882 to 1918, 197 Savings bank work transferred to Post Office, 41, 82 Scinde District Dawk stamps, 31, 178 Sea Customs Act, 43 Sea Post Office, 127 Sea Post Office, Abolition of, 135