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Catalogue description Post Office: Overseas Mails: Organisation and Services: Packet Boats and Shipping
This record is held by The Postal Museum
| Reference: | POST 43 |
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| Title: | Post Office: Overseas Mails: Organisation and Services: Packet Boats and Shipping |
| Description: |
This series primarily relates to the establishment and organisation of the packet boat and shipping services between the United Kingdom and overseas. There are a small number of records relating to operational procedures between the Post Office and HM Customs and Excise Office. The records mainly consist of Post Office Daily Lists of ship's departure and arrival times, and mail carried. It also contains Packet boat log books, voyage record books and Packet station correspondence relating to personnel, stores held, and armed conflict. It also includes some later records concerning the general organisation of overseas mail including by air. Some records have been re-classified from POST 12 and POST 45. 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: | 1683-1942 |
| Related material: |
See also for overseas mails letter books POST 48 for contracts with shipping companies POST 51 |
| Held by: | The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
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