Page 203 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1790-1799

- 9 3 O 7 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 21, 1793)

PACKET-BOATS being established between Falmouth and Corunna, in order to carry on a Weekly Correspondence
between Great Britain and Spain, by which the Letters for Oporto will also be forwarded, unless they are directed Via
Lisbon.
The Mails for Lisbon will likewise, for the future, be made up and dispatched from hence every Tuesday N"ight, instead
of Wednesday in the Afternoon, as at present; All Persons are, therefore, desired to put their Letters into this Office on
Fridays, for Spain and Oporto, and on Tuesdays, for Lisbon, before Twelve o'Clock at Night.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

- 9 3 0 8 NEWS (General Post-Office, Edinburgh, June 22, 1793)

NOTICE is hereby given, That a PENNY POST will be established here on the 5th July next for the accommodation of
this city and its vicinity, to extend to Leith, Dalkeith, Musselburgh, and Prestonpans, where Offices will be established, and
Receiving Houses at the following places, viz. one in the Canongate, one in the Grass-market, one in Chapel Street, and
one in South Hanover Street.
All letters for the delivery of Edinburgh, or the above named places, which are into this Office any time during the
evening, and at the Receiving Houses before seven o'clock in the evening, will be safely delivered early next morning; - and
if at any of the Receiving Houses by two o'clock afternoon, and at the General Post-office before half past three, will be
delivered the same evening.
And whereas, by an act of the 5th of his present Majesty, no person or persons whatsoever shall make any collection of
letters or packets in or near any city, town, suburbs, or place where any Penny Post office or Offices shall be established,
without license or leave of the Post-Master-General, upon pain of incurring the forfeitures and penalties mentioned in an
act of the 9th of Queen Ann, -
Notice is hereby given, that all persons so offending will be immediately prosecuted.
From the above period a regular Post-Office will be established at South Queensferry, for which a bag will be made up
every day. Postage of a single Letter Two-pence.
WILLIAM KERR, Sec.

- 9 3 0 9 0029 (General Post-Office, June 26, 1793)
To all Postmasters.

HEREWITH you will receive a supply of Forms relating to the London Missent and Dead Letters, &c. for the Quarter
ending the lOth of October next, and also some blank Receipts, in which you are to specify the Sum you will allow upon
overcharged Letters, though you will always endeavour to obtain the Covers, as the Receipts are to be used only, when the
Covers cannot be spared.
In future you will insert the Amount of the overcharged Covers directed to Members of Parliament, separately from
the others, agreeably to the Form No. 3.
By the lOth Article of Instructions, you will observe, that Members of Parliament can receive free such Letters only as
are sent from Places within the Ki.ngdom of Great-Britain, and that they must pay the full Postage on all others; you will
therefore be particularly attentive to this part of your Instructions, and when you make Rebates upon Covers charged to
Members of Parliament, (in case the Members should object to write "Received by me") you are to write on the Front with
Red Ink, "delivered to the Member," in order that it may be known here, and at the same time to prevent, as much as
possible, any Abuse of this Revenue, by Letters being received free in the absence of the Member to whom they are
addressed.
I am also to request that you will be very careful in making Rebates, upon overcharged Letters, especially upon such
as are marked with the Crown Stamp, (which you will observe on this Letter,) as you can at all times be satisfied by a
cursory view of the Contents, whether the claim is just, before you make an allowance.
I am, Your assured Friend,
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

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