Catalogue description Post Office: Inland Mail Services: Letter Post

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Details of POST 23
Reference: POST 23
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.

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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

POST 14
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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