Post Office Reform. Its importance and praticability
Details:
- Author(s) Wolmer, Viscount
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1932
- Pages 314pp
- Publisher Ivor Nicholson & Watson
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Public ownership & control inc nationalisation, municipalisation & privatisation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
The writer, Viscount Wolmer MP, was for four years from 1924 Assistant Postmaster General; his position turns on the need for the Post Office to be treated as a business rather than as a government department in order to improve its efficiency. Has chapters: 'As an Under-Secretary see it'; 'The story of Rowland Hill'; 'The mails'; 'The story of our telephones'; 'Some international comparisons'; 'The telegraphs'; 'The staff'; 'The cause'; 'The problem of socialised industry'; 'A way of reform'