Catalogue description Post Office: Postmaster General's Reports

This record series forms a series of precis of the reports held in POST 40: Postmaster General's papers. The precis provide a set of indices to this series. It comprises reports on all aspects of Post Office business and is a parallel series to POST 35 which covers major subjects and places (England and Wales) and is also a series of Postmaster General's papers.

Until 1837 when this report series faded out, the reports referred to important cases, such as the running of major departments and key decisions, while the minutes (POST 35) recorded matters of a comparatively secondary nature. Upon its demise, cases formerly submitted to the 'report' series were now recorded in the minutes.

The series includes a degree of duplication. [Series A], which are Indices of subjects, persons and places, are duplicated with additional notes in [Series B]. [Series A], are duplicated as abstracts in [Series D], and [Series D], are duplicated with additional notes in [Series E].

Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.

In 1842 volumes of Scottish Minutes were introduced and Scottish subjects were transferred from the Postmaster General's Minute series in

POST 35

The series is a precis of reports held in: POST 40

POST 30