Seamen's letters, Soldiers' and, 40, 181 Service stamps, 35, 40, 184 Ship postage, 26, 34, 37 Sikkim Expedition, 214 "Snowball" system, Sale of goods on the, 53 Soldiers' and seamens' letters, 40, 181 Somaliland Field Force, 229 Sorting, Concentration of, 69 Sorting offices, Introduction of, 37, 58 South Persia, British Mission Escort in, 175 Southampton route, 123, 124 Special postage rates for official articles, 40 Stamps, Employment of postage stamps in place of telegraph, 183 Stamps, Overprinted or surcharged postage, 115, 148, 182, 184, 228 Stamps, Service, 35, 40, 184 Standard vans, 61 Suakim Expedition, 1896, 222 Suakim Field Post Office, 1885, 213 Sub-office, 3 Suez Canal, Opening of, 124 Suez Canal route, Future of, 125 Superintendent, 189 Superintendent, Probationary, 189 Suppression of foreign post offices in Ottoman dominions, Turkish demand for, 139, 147 Surcharged postage stamps, 182, 184 Surrender values of Life Insurance policies, 236 Swat Valley Column, 225 Taylor, Captain, 17 Telegraph stamps, Employment of postage stamps in place of, 183 Telegraphic money orders, 74, 77 Thuillier, General Sir Henry, 179, 181 Tibet Mission, 229 Tirah Expedition, 224 Tochi Field Force, 224 Tochi Valley Field Force, 225 Transhipment of mails at Aden, 130, 133 Travel in early days, Methods of, 195 Travellers' bungalows, 17, 196 Travelling post office, 58 Turkish Arabia, Insurance system in the Persian Gulf and, 141 Turkish Customs House at Bagdad and Basra, 140, 146 Turkish post to Constantinople via Mosul, 139 Turkish postage stamps overprinted, 148 Unification of Indian State Posts with the Imperial Post Office, 115 Uniform, Field service, 166 Uniform, Postmen's, 104 Uniformity of postage irrespective of distance, 24, 32, 39, 49 Unpaid correspondence, 7, 25, 34, 158, 160 Upper Burma Expedition, 213 Value-payable system, 40, 46, 50, 51 Vans, Construction and maintenance of postal, 63, 66 Vans, Standard, 61 Village postman, 4, 94, 100 Waghorn, Lieutenant Thomas, 122 Wano Expedition, 220 War Loan, 87 Watermarks, 180, 182 Waziristan Field Force, 220 Wuntho Expedition, 219 Zhob Expedition, 217 Transcriber's Notes Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Hyphen removed: missending (p. 69), upcountry (p. 30). p. 25: "addresses" changed to "addressees" (read by the addressees). p. 55: Last column of third row of table changed from "41" to "14". p. 91: "seldoms" changed to "seldom" (He seldom knows English). p. 205: "Bolundshahur" changed to "Bulundshahur" (although Bulundshahur and a large portion of Allyghur). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Post Office of India and its Story, by Geoffrey Clarke