as the order dated 19 september 1721 incorporated a comprehensive memorandum of 24 items and was accompanied by a list of the benefits of the regulation, it appears that problems had been anticipated from the outset. for example, as advantages of the national survey, the memorandum called pointed out that the payment of ""delivery men, relay services, postal items and other goods"" would be verifiable and the prices could no longer be fixed arbitrarily, that there would be fewer complaints from travellers about high fees that had hitherto taken up the time of courts and higher authorities, and that journey times and delivery times would be precisely defined by the survey. another argument was that the roads would be more easily recognisable in the winter and at night.