Penny Post He circulated mail to 17 shops in the city (effectively post offices) and employed 4 uniformed postmen. Their hats read "Penny Post" and were numbered 1,4,8 and 16 to make the business look bigger. On 5 December 1839 the Uniform Fourpenny Post was introduced by the General Post Office but lasted only 36 days until 9 January 1840 when the Uniform Penny Post was introduced. The penny post box was green. In 1835 Rowland Hill published a pamphlet entitled 'Post Office Reform' which led to various reforms and the introduction of the first postage stamp and convinced Parliament to implement
Laurie Penny was leaving "The Independent" to rejoin the "New Statesman" (in November) as a columnist and contributing editor. Penny is the author of "" (Zero Books, 2011) and" Penny Red: Notes from a New Age of Dissent "(Pluto Press, 2011). In "Meat Market" she mounts an attack on liberal feminism, which she characterises as embracing the consumer choice offered by capitalism as the path to female emancipation. "Penny Red" was shortlisted for the inaugural Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing in 2012. "" was published in July 2014. Shortly afterwards, Penny stated she had been subjected to "a stream of