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Catalogue description Post Office: Postmaster General's Reports: Documents
This record is held by The Postal Museum
| Reference: | POST 40 |
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| Title: | Post Office: Postmaster General's Reports: Documents |
| Description: |
The Postmaster General's Report series (POST 40 and POST 42) began in about 1790 and comprise reports on all aspects of Post Office organisation in England, Wales and Scotland; as well as those on the Packet Boat service and overseas postal arrangements up to 1807, when a separate Packet Report series (POST 39 and POST 41) was introduced. POST 40 consists of those actual Reports which are still in existence, with their enclosures (many of which are sketch maps of local postal routes, petitions from the principal inhabitants of towns and villages throughout the country and detailed reports from heads of departments and the District Surveyors, etc). Although, in this list, some of these Reports are shown as 'wanting', many are, in fact, filed within later Reports on the same subject - a common practice of the day. 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: | 1791-1841 |
| Related material: |
Postmaster General's reports are in POST 42 |
| Held by: | The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
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