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Sub-sub-fonds
Post Office: Overseas Mails Letter Books
Catalogue reference: POST 48
What’s it about?
This record is about the Post Office: Overseas Mails Letter Books dating from 1703-1938.
Is it available online?
Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at The Postal Museum.
Can I see it in person?
Not at The National Archives, but you may be able to view it in person at The Postal Museum.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- POST 48
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Title (The name of the record)
- Post Office: Overseas Mails Letter Books
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1703-1938
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of overseas letter books mainly concerned with Newspaper Post transported by packet ships. The majority of the records relate to arrangements for the management of this mail service. This includes duties such as locating missing and misdirected letters and arranging for postal collection and delivery; staff issues such as appointments, transfers, promotions and dismissals; financial issues including staff salaries and currency exchanges between national post offices and the dissemination of changes to post office policy and office administration which relate to changes in postage charges and weights, requests for office stationery and collection of reports.
Some records have been re-classified from POST 45.
Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The books are arranged in chronological order within subseries.
All pieces are one volume unless otherwise stated.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Treasury letters POST 1
Post Office: Accounts POST 9
Packet services and agents POST 4
Packets and shipping POST 43
Overseas mails contracts: sea POST 51
Additional information on the Post Office packet service and agents can be found in:
Packet service reports POST 41
Inland mails organisation: letter books POST 15
Packet Service volumes POST 34
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Postal Museum
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 338 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11775/
How to order it
- View this record page in our current catalogue
- Check viewing and downloading options
- Select an option and follow instructions
Catalogue hierarchy
270 records
This record is held at The Postal Museum
111 records
Within the fonds: POST
Records created or inherited by the Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors
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Post Office: Overseas Mails Letter Books
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