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Stillwater, Washington County, Minnesota
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Anthony Trollope, English novelist and post office surveyor from 1841-1867, invented the letter-box and introduced rural postal improvements like stamps for villages, early delivery, and pillar boxes, starting with the first in St. Helier, Jersey.
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The inventor of the letter-box was Anthony Trollope, the novelist, who was a surveyor of the post office, in England, from 1841 to his retirement from the service in 1867. One sure way of arousing Trollope's ire was to suggest that he neglected his postoffice work for the sake of his novels. He took, as a matter of fact, an intense pride in his official work, or, as he put it, he had a passion for letters. In his autobiography he enumerated various benefits for which the public had cause to be grateful to him. First came the arrangement by which the people living in little villages could buy postage stamps; secondly, the free and early rural delivery, and the putting up of pillar or letter-collecting boxes. Of that accommodation he says: "In the streets and ways of England I was the originator, having, however, got the authority for the erection of the first at St. Helier, in Jersey."—Ex.
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England
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1841 1867
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introduction of village stamp sales, free early rural delivery, and pillar letter boxes in england, originating from the first in st. helier, jersey.
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Anthony Trollope, post office surveyor, invented the letter-box and took pride in postal reforms including stamps for villages, rural delivery, and collecting boxes, as detailed in his autobiography.