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Catalogue reference: POST 80
This record is about the Post Office: Agency Services dating from 1874-1937.
Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at The Postal Museum.
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This series comprises material relating to the introduction and operation of agency services provided by The Post Office. It covers; the payment of Old Age Pensions at post offices, the sale of Health Insurance and Unemployment Insurance stamps, the floatation of the 'War Loan', in 1915, to help finance the war and the payment of money due to public corporations through The Post Office.
Please see The Postal Museum's online catalogue for descriptions of individual records within this series.
Chronological
The first Agency Service to be provided by the Post Office on behalf of the government was the Post Office Insurance and Annuity Scheme introduced at selected post offices in 1865. The payment of Old Age Pensions at post offices was introduced in 1909 and in 1912 Health Insurance and Unemployment Insurance Stamps began to be sold. In 1915, through the medium of the Post Office Savings Bank, the Post Office helped to float the 'War Loan,' and in the same year it began to issue War Savings Certificates through its Money Order Department.
Records created or inherited by the Royal Mail Group plc and predecessors
Post Office: Agency Services
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