Catalogue description Post Office: Records on British Postal Agencies

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Details of POST 45
Reference: POST 45
Title: Post Office: Records on British Postal Agencies
Description:

Records relating to the operation of British Postal Agencies.

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: 1865-[c 1910]
Related material:

For accounts of British packet services and overseas posts, including records of agents and postmasters, see POST 4
Separated material:

Some records have been re-classified and transferred to:

POST 43

POST 48

POST 68
Held by: The Postal Museum, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 6 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

British postal agencies, (also known as British Post Offices) were established in countries throughout the world to manage, and monitor the arrangements and regulations for the conveyance of mail to and from Britain and to carry out these arrangements. Agents were appointed to condut local affairs on behalf of the Postmaster General. Their duties included the receipt and despatch of mails, the collection of postage, maintenace of accounts and reporting to the Secretary in London any matters of concern.

In 1873, British Consuls were appointed as agents with the titles of British Post Office Agent.

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