Page 169 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1780-1789

Loughborough, Towcester, Holmeschaple, Prescot,
Derby, Daventry, Newcastle under Line, Mansfield,
Ashborne, Lutterworth, Congleton, Chesterfield,
Leek, Rugby, Knutsford, Sheffield,
Macclesfield, Coventry, Warrington, Barnsley,
Stockport, Coleshi ll, Wigan, Huddersfield, and
Rochdale, Litchfield, Preston, Wakefield.
Fenny Stratford, Stone, Lancaster,
Stony Stratford, Middlewich, Kendal,
And the following Towns only Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.
Wellingborough, Kettering, Oakham, and Melton Mowbray,

must be put into the Receiving Houses before FIVE, and into the General Post-Office before SEVEN o'Clock in the
Evening; likewise for Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, Newmarket, Ely, and the intermediate Places on the Road to each; and for
all Parts of the Counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

-- 8 5 0 8 NEWS (General Post-Office, August 6, 1785)
MR. PALMER having engaged to accomplish his Plan for the Conveyance of His Majesty's Mails to all Parts of the
Kingdom as soon as possible, the Letters for every Part of Great Britain and Ireland, must, on and after Monday the 15th
Instant, be put into the Receiving Houses before FIVE o'Clock in the Evening, and into this Office before SEVEN, in order
to prevent the Inconveniencies which have arisen to the Public from two Deliveries in London on the same Day, and the
sending out the Mails at different Hours on the same Evening.
From that Time likewise the Letters are intended to be sent out regularly from hence between the Hours of Nine and
Ten in the Morning, so as to reach the most distant Parts of the Town by Twelve at Noon.
Notice will be given in a few Days when the Mail Conveyance upon Mr. Palmer's Plan will be established to
Hampshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, as likewise to Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Gloucester,
and Ludlow, and also to Dover.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.
The following are the Mail Coaches already established.
To Bath and Bristol from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane, and the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly.
To Norwich and Yarmouth, through Newmarket and Thetford from the White Horse, Fetter-lane.
To Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich from the same Place.
To Nottingham and Leeds from the Bull and Mouth, in Bull and Mouth-street.
To Manchester, through Derby.
And to Liverpool, through Coventry and Litchfield, from the Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.

-- 8 5 0 9 NEWS (General Post-Office, August 15, 1785)
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MR. PALMER having engaged to accomplish his Plan for the Conveyance of His Majesty's Mails to all Parts of the
Kingdom as soon as possible, the Letters for every Part of Great Britain and Ireland, must in future be put into the
Receiving Houses before FIVE o'Clock in the Evening, and into this Office before SEVEN, in order to prevent the
Inconveniencies which have arisen to the Public from Two Deliveries in London on the same Day, and the sending out the
Mails at different Hours on the same Evening.
The Letters likewise will be sent out regularly from hence between the Hours of Nine and Ten in the Morning, so as
to reach the most distant Parts of the Town by Twelve at Noon.
Notice will be given in a few Days when the Mail ConveyanFe upon Mr. Palmer's Plan will be established to all Parts
of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall, as likewise to Birmingham, Shrewsbury,
Gloucester, Worcester and Ludlow, and also to Dover.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

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