Q. 1.

Read the passage given below and answer the questions that
follow
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Do you know where the modern mail svstem originated? Well, it
was
but the
England. And the strange thing was that it was not the sender
receiver who had to pay for the post. Initially, the postman delivering
letters used to collect the money in cash. The postage itself quite hign
became
calculated on the basis of a complex set of rates. Rowland Hill, who
the greatest postal reformer in history, never forgot his childhood
sell a bag of
experience, when his poor mother had to send him out to
clothes to raise three shillings to receive a batch of letters.

Later, he scheme so that the burden of payment should bee

thought of a
shifted from the addressee to the sender. And the system postage
of stamP
was started. Most letters required a postage stamp worth only a penny. The
first such stamp was issued in 1840 and carried the head of Queen Victoria.
Some people felt unhappy that their queen's head was disfigured in the
mind. In fact, she
process of cancelation. The Queen herself did not seem to
herself enjoyed walking to local post office from her Balmoral Castle to
buy stamps and chat with the postmaster. These reforms gave a great boost
to letter writing--a fitting end to the old, outdated system of sending
through runners, carrier pigeons and post riders.
(a) Answer the following questions briefly:
( Where was the moderm postal system started?
(i) Who used to pay for the post in the beginning?

(ii) Which 'burden' is shifted from the addressee to the sender?

(iw) When was the first stamp issued ?
(v) How much did people spend on most stamps at first ?