Editing Uniform Penny Post (section)

{{About |the 1840 uniform penny postage service in the UK|similarly named services|Penny Post}}
	
[[Image:UPP POreg handbill 1840jan7.png|thumb|300px|right|[[Royal Mail]] ''Post Office Regulations'' [[Flyer (pamphlet)|handbill]] giving details of the Uniform Penny Post, dated January 7, 1840]]
The '''Uniform Penny Post''' was a component of the comprehensive reform of the [[General Post Office|Royal Mail]], the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UK]]'s official postal service, that took place in the 19th century. The reforms were a government initiative to eradicate the abuse and corruption of the existing service. Under the reforms, the postal service became a government monopoly, but it also became more accessible to the British population at large through setting a charge of one penny<ref group="nb">One penny in 1840 is £{{inflation |UK|0.004166667|1840| r=2}} today.</ref> for carriage and delivery between any two places in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]] irrespective of distance.<ref>{{Cite book| last1 = Ince | first1 = Henry | first2 = James | last2 = Gikbert | title = English History | publisher = W. Kent & Co. | location = London |year = 1860 | page = [https://archive.org/details/englishhistory00gilbgoog/page/n306 296] | url = https://archive.org/details/englishhistory00gilbgoog}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last = Brewer | first = Rev. Ebenezer Cobham | title = Poetical chronology of inventions, discoveries &c.… from the conquest | publisher = Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans | year = 1853 | location = London | page = [https://archive.org/details/poeticalchronol00brewgoog/page/n154 143] | url = https://archive.org/details/poeticalchronol00brewgoog }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://brlsi.org/proceed04/lunch200404.htm | place = Bath | publisher = Postal Museum | title = History of Postal Services | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110524151409/http://www.brlsi.org/proceed04/lunch200404.htm | archive-date = 2011-05-24 }}.</ref>