The amount of sea-postage collected has never reached within late years to more than half the entire cost of the mail-packet service.
Our home and foreign mail-packet service is a costly and gigantic branch of the Post-Office establishment.
During the same period, repeated efforts were made by English merchants, to have a packet service to the North American colonies.
It required a ruder prompting before the government could be induced to spend the money necessary for a packet service, and this was not long in coming.
There is no record of the result, but from what is known of the postal business in America, it cannot be supposed that it would be of a magnitude to encourage the establishment of a packet service.
This practice was extended to those places to which there was a packet service, and became generally recognized.
So far as it directed that all letters for places abroad should be sent by packet where a packet service existed, the Act was ineffective.
From the chief coffee-houses in the City of London it was customary to collect letters to be sent in this way by private ship where no packet service existed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "packet service" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
