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Catalogue description Post Office: Overseas Mails Letter Books
This record is held by The Postal Museum
| Reference: | POST 48 |
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| Title: | Post Office: Overseas Mails Letter Books |
| Description: |
This series consists of overseas letter books mainly concerned with Newspaper Post transported by packet ships. The majority of the records relate to arrangements for the management of this mail service. This includes duties such as locating missing and misdirected letters and arranging for postal collection and delivery; staff issues such as appointments, transfers, promotions and dismissals; financial issues including staff salaries and currency exchanges between national post offices and the dissemination of changes to post office policy and office administration which relate to changes in postage charges and weights, requests for office stationery and collection of reports. Some records have been re-classified from 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: | 1703-1938 |
| Arrangement: |
The books are arranged in chronological order within subseries. All pieces are one volume unless otherwise stated. |
| Related material: |
Additional information on the Post Office packet service and agents can be found in: Overseas mails contracts: sea POST 51 Packet services and agents POST 4 Post Office: Accounts POST 9 Inland mails organisation: letter books POST 15 Packet Service volumes POST 34 Packet service reports POST 41 Packets and shipping POST 43 Treasury letters POST 1 |
| Held by: | The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 338 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
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