Catalogue description Post Office: Packet Reports: Volumes

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Details of POST 41
Reference: POST 41
Title: Post Office: Packet Reports: Volumes
Description:

The Packet Report series (POST 39 and POST 41) comprise reports to the Postmaster General, from the Secretary to the Post Office, on the Packet Boat service and overseas mail arrangements.

POST 41 consists of indexed volumes containing a copy of every report submitted to the Postmaster General (including those which have since been destroyed) and is the only guide to the contents of POST 39 (Packet Service Report Papers). The Postmaster General's decision on each case is also recorded.

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: 1807-1837
Related material:

Reports submitted to the Postmaster General are in: POST 39

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

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