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Catalogue reference: POST 43
This record is about the Post Office: Overseas Mails: Organisation and Services: Packet Boats and Shipping dating from 1683-1942.
Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at The Postal Museum.
Not at The National Archives, but you may be able to view it in person at The Postal Museum.
This series primarily relates to the establishment and organisation of the packet boat and shipping services between the United Kingdom and overseas. There are a small number of records relating to operational procedures between the Post Office and HM Customs and Excise Office. The records mainly consist of Post Office Daily Lists of ship's departure and arrival times, and mail carried. It also contains Packet boat log books, voyage record books and Packet station correspondence relating to personnel, stores held, and armed conflict.
It also includes some later records concerning the general organisation of overseas mail including by air.
Some records have been re-classified from POST 12 and POST 45.
Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
See also
for contracts with shipping companies POST 51
for overseas mails letter books POST 48
Records created or inherited by the Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors
Post Office: Overseas Mails: Organisation and Services: Packet Boats and Shipping
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