Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
Most of the 350,000 persons who are actively engaged in the service of the General Post Office are established civil servants to whom the provisions of the Superannuation Acts, 1834–1957, apply. Arrangements for pensioning civil servants when they retire are of long standing, and the number of former Post Office employees drawing pension has now risen to about 70,000, most of whom are men.
page 73 note * J.I.A. 83, 153 and 84, 287.