Editing Uniform Penny Post (section)

==Campaign for reform==
[[Richard Cobden]] and [[John Ramsey McCulloch]], both advocates of free trade, attacked the Conservative government's policies of privilege and protection, including their archaic postal system.  McCulloch, in 1833, advanced the view that "nothing contributes more to facilitate commerce than the safe, speedy and cheap conveyance of letters."<ref>{{cite book  | last = Robinson | first = Howard | title = The British Post Office; a History | publisher = [[Princeton University Press]] | year = 1948 | location = Princeton, NJ}}</ref>  The campaign for cheap postage was actually initiated by [[Robert Wallace (MP for Greenock)|Robert Wallace]], who in 1835 argued, before a governmental commission set up to investigate the problems, that greater use of the mailing system would lead to increased revenue for the government.