Catalogue description Post Office: Accounts of Packet Ship Services and British Overseas Posts

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Details of POST 4
Reference: POST 4
Title: Post Office: Accounts of Packet Ship Services and British Overseas Posts
Description:

This series comprises accounts of British packet services and overseas posts, including records of agents and postmasters, packet stations, and packet boats. The accounts cover income, expenditure, salaries, allowances and disembursements.

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: 1773-1857
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For records on British Postal Agencies POST 45

For overseas mails letter books see POST 48
Held by: The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 32 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure

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