Query: "I've got your number."

[victor steinbok]

D'oH!! Of course, there is no Postage Act until December 1796. The
Wiki-invented Postage Act of 1765 is actually ... the Stamp Act of
1765, which included provisions on postage and street numbers. Go
figure! And Stamps of the Stamp Act only peripherally dealt with
postage... It's funny how the world works sometimes...

VS-)

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ...-London got house numbers wit the Postage Act of 1765. ...

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