He also promoted major legislation dealing with postal reform and land-use planning.
As the postal reform was extended to other rates (local, rural and newspapers), new denominations were issued.
Rowland Hill first started to take a serious interest in postal reforms in 1835.
But when it comes to postal reform, the real cowboy capitalists are oceans away.
A consensus, though, will not ensure real postal reform, experts say.
Results in the Member States where postal reform has been more rapid demonstrate this fact.
The goal of postal reform is not preserving jobs, nor of course reducing them.
There is a momentum to finalise the process of postal reform.
"I think the people handed down a verdict that postal reform is right," he said from the party's headquarters.
And postal reform is certainly going to help.