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Catalogue description Post Office: Inland Mail Services: Letter Post
This record is held by The Postal Museum
| Reference: | POST 23 |
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| Title: | Post Office: Inland Mail Services: Letter Post |
| Description: |
This series comprises reports, case papers and correspondence relating to the establishment, development and operation of the Inland Letter Post service. Contains some pieces originally in POST 22. Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series. |
| Note: | Catalogue entries below series level were removed from Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, in November 2016 because fuller descriptions were available in The Postal Museum's online catalogue. |
| Date: | 1636-1989 |
| Arrangement: |
The material is arranged in chronological order within series. |
| Related material: |
For Inland Services Parcel Post see POST 25 |
| Separated material: |
A small number of pieces have been transferred to |
| Held by: | The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 212 files and volumes |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Selection and destruction information: | POST 23/67-71 on the Express Delivery Service have been disposed of as they are duplicate copies of POST 28/3, 28/5-7 and 28/9. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In July 1635, by a royal proclamation of Charles I, a new revenue-producing plan to offset the cost of maintaining the royal posts was implemented. This allowed the public to use the royal posts in return for fixed rates of postage based on the number of sheets of paper making up the letter and on the distance it was carried. The public posts were set up on the five principal roads of the kingdom, those to Dover, Edinburgh, Holyhead, Plymouth and Bristol. |
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