Catalogue description Post Office: Inland Mails: Services, Money Orders and Postal Orders

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Details of POST 27
Reference: POST 27
Title: Post Office: Inland Mails: Services, Money Orders and Postal Orders
Description:

This series contains historical accounts, annual, financial and other reports, letter copy books, minutes and correspondence on the establishment, operation and development of the money order and postal order services. The series also contains records on the prevention and detection of fraud, the use of postal orders as currency in wartime, and information on agreements with other Empire or Commonwealth countries for the sale of British postal or money orders in their territories.

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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: 1838-1957
Related material:

See also POST 23
Held by: The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English

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