Prepayment or payment on delivery of letters should be optional, and franking abolished.
The question of franking the correspondence of the provincial governments and of the members of the legislatures was one upon which the legislatures in the several provinces had particularly strong convictions.
In April 1837, both houses passed a franking act, under which the members were authorized to send their letters free, during the sittings of the legislature.
Except at the letter rate of postage, no newspapers could either enter or leave the kingdom unless they were franked;[80] and the power of franking them was restricted to Post Office servants.
The abuses of franking now came under notice again.
In other words, newspapers might pass through the post free; and as a consequence the franking privilege possessed by the clerks of the roads was at an end.
These clerks, in conjunction with their comptroller, had the exclusive right of franking newspapers for the Continent, just as newspapers circulating within Great Britain were franked by the clerks of the roads.
The same statute which restrained the abuses of frankingmade a not unimportant concession.
Under the terms of the Franking Act newspapers were to go free which should bear a member's signature on the outside or which should be directed to a member at any place of which he had given notice in writing to the postmasters-general.
That no privilege of franking shall be allowed as regards the Provincial Postage.
No Franking Privilege is allowed under the New Act, except with regard to Letters and Packets on the business of the Post Office, addressed to or transmitted by the Post Master General.
This franking privilege is already doomed, if not already dead.
The whole address was written by the franking member himself, and not much was sent in this way that was bulky.
But, nevertheless, I regard the franking privilege as doomed, and offer to the Washington post-office officials my best congratulations on their coming deliverance.
It is, as I have said, shaking off from itself that terrible incubus, the franking privilege.
To such an extent has the privilege offranking been carried in the States!
The Franking Privilege has been restored to the members and chief officers of Congress, so as to allow them to send free almost anything which they were ever allowed to transmit through the mails free, except letters.
That the laws relating to the Franking Privilege are not altered.
A thorough understanding of the use of these stamps will best be obtained by a brief review of the system it for a time supplanted, which was briefly designated as the "Franking Privilege.
It is some consolation that the Lord Chancellor and Judges failed to obtain the franking privilege although a bill was introduced in the Commons in their behalf.
When the Irish was separated from the English Post Office, the privilege of franking newspapers to Ireland was taken away and a rate of one penny a newspaper was imposed, payable in advance.
Their franking privilege was unlimited as to the weight and number of letters nor were they required to insert the name of the post town or the date.
Enough was shown, however, to prove that the frankingsystem was a burden to the country and an imposition upon the Post Office.
The fifth class, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the Irish Surveyors, had unlimited franking rights within Ireland.
The abuses of the privilege of franking were very pronounced during the eighteenth century.
Those officials in the General Post Office who had no franking privilege were reimbursed the amount of postage paid by them on inland single letters (Rep.
The privileges of franking votes, proceedings in Parliament, and newspapers, were continued to the clerks in the Post Office and in the Secretaries of State's offices.
The restrictions upon the franking privilege enjoyed by members of Parliament were re-enacted in 1802 with some additions.
Recent attempts by certain members of Parliament to revive the franking privilege have fortunately been unsuccessful (Parl.
This privilege of franking was abused, and one would hear that so and so had franked a ham, and one person was said to have franked a piano!
To Senators and Members of Congress, the franking privilege was originally limited to 2 ounces in weight, excess to be paid for.
It advised also that payment of postage should be required in advance; and for the facilitation of this plan, recommended the adoption of stamped covers, which should have the effect of franking the letters enclosed.
Here was what may be justly called “the franking privilege,” while the whole postal service was costly and cumbersome.
The rate was established at one penny, with stamps; and the franking privilege was abolished, except in the case of petitions to the Crown or to Parliament not exceeding thirty-two ounces in weight.
The existing franking system will naturally disappear in this newfranking system for all.
While abolishing the franking system, I try to provide a substitute, and at the same time, by associate provisions, to simplify and reduce the rate of postage.
The English franking privilege was the natural parasite of such a system, where the true idea of a post-office was entirely forgotten.
The new system was founded on a uniform rate for uniform weight without regard to distance, and this rate the lowest unit of coin,--with prepaid stamps, and the abolition of the franking privilege.
The people called for more, and the Lords of the Treasury by another warrant declared the rate at one penny and suspended the franking privilege.
Thus was the abolition of the franking privilege announced as subordinate to the reduction of the postage rates, which was the main object.
But, offensive as thefranking privilege had become, and burdensome to the postal service, he did not at first propose its excision.
Among other reforms and suggestions made in Mr. Plitt’s report are the abolition of the franking privilege, the prepayment of all letters, as well as of newspapers and all printed matter.
Nor can he authorize the use of fac-simile stamps for the purpose of franking matter passing through the mails.
Postmasters are requested to report to the department all violations of the franking privilege.
Another potent reason for the abolition of the franking privilege, as now exercised, is found in the abuses which seem to be inseparable from its existence.
Although the franking system is bad enough in all conscience, it is not responsible for the bulk of the postal loss.
Since the above date, almost every postmaster-general has alluded to the franking privilege.
A “National Franking Privilege Express” would not be a bad title.
Among these, that of the franking system may be ranked as a most prominent one.
And the whole system of franking was swept away, and each department of the government was required to pay its own postage, and report the same among its expenditures.
Above all, the franking privilege should be abolished.
It has been said that it will be impossible to secure the services of postmasters, without giving them the franking privilege.
There are many discrepancies in the several returns from which the extent of franking is to be gathered.
Sir Robert Peel did not think it desirable that members of this house should retain the franking privilege.
There is no middle ground between boundless franking and no franking.
The moral evils of the franking system are far more serious than the pecuniary expense, although that is by no means undeserving of regard.
The bill was passed, but thefranking privilege was continued, and yet the Postmaster-General has told us that the current income of the department is equal to its expenses.
James Brooks for his kindness in franking our petitions, and his skill in calling to them the attention of the nation.
The franking system was henceforth confined to passing free through the post any letter which should be indorsed on the cover with the signature of a member of either House of Parliament.
We are so poor," she added, "that we have invented this manner of corresponding and franking our letters.
This sole control over the resources of the packet-service explains much in the history of the franking system, which would be quite unintelligible without the information just given.
A Committee of the House of Commons which sat in the year 1735 reported, "that the privilege of franking letters by the knights, &c.
Some of the old abuses of the franking system have re-appeared.
He was inclined to think that abuse was carried to an enormous extent, and he was afraid if they gave the public offices the right of franking the same abuse would recur.
It is important to observe that the amount actually paid by Government for its postage before the abolition of frankingwas less, in proportion to the amount of its correspondence, than that paid after the abolition.
Ten dollars was the penalty for an unlawful use of the franking privilege.
Franking privileges were almost immediately established for the members of Congress and for the army commanders, and were later extended, with some limitations, to private soldiers in the service.
The recommendations of the Postmaster-General in relation to the abolition of the franking privilege and his views on the establishment of mail steamship lines deserve the consideration of Congress.
Should Congress prefer to abolish the franking privilege entirely, it seems probable that no demand on the Treasury would result from the proposed reduction of postage.
There is also too much reason to fear that the franking privilege has run into great abuse.
This is attributed in a great degree to the increase of free letters growing out of the extension and abuse of the franking privilege.
But the spirit of inquiry was beginning to assert itself in the first half of the century, and the franking privilege disappeared with the dawn of cheap postage.
The privilege of franking letters enjoyed by Members of Parliament was a sad burden upon the Revenue of the Post Office, and it continued in vigour down to the establishment of the Penny Post.
This measure led to wanton extravagance in the matter of official postage, no care was taken to economize either in the number or the size of "public service" articles and various abuses of franking occurred.
No postage, however, for the Library of Congress has the franking privilege, in and out.
Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to alter the laws in relation to the franking privilege.
No post master or other privileged person can authorize his assistant, clerk, or any other person to write his name for the purpose of franking any letter, public or private.
The personal privilege of franking travels with the person possessing it, and can be exercised in but one place at the same time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "franking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
