Page 207 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1790-1799

-9 4 0 9 NEWS (General Post-Office, June 27, 1794)

Notice is hereby given, that a Ride, for the Conveyance of Letters to be delivered by the Penny Post, is established
between London and Edmonton; by which Letters are now dispatched to and from Town Three times a Day to and from
the following Places, viz. Hackney, Hommerton, Clapton, Shackelwell, Dalston, Kingsland, Stoke Newington, Tottenham,
and Edmonton, and the intermediate Places; and Two Deliveries of Letters are given to and from Southgate, Winchmore
Hill, &c.
On Monday next the Penny Post will be extended to the Town and Neighbourhood of Enfield, the Number of Posts
daily to and from which will be Two.
ANTH. TODD, Sec.

- 9 4 1 0 NEWS (General Post Office, July 7, 1794)

NOTICE is hereby given, that the villages of Richmond, Petersham, and Ham, which were heretofore not within the
limits of the Penny-Post, are now included in the delivery of that office. Likewise, that rides for the conveyance of letters by
the Penny-post, are now established to and from the Chief Penny-post Office, in Abchurch-lane, to and from Mitcham and
Richmond, in Suny; the number of deliveries of letters given daily to the several places, within the limits of which are, as
under:
Newington Butts, Kensington, Vauxhan South Lambeth, Walworth, Camberwell, Stockwell, Clapham, Tooting,
Streatham, Mitcham, Battersea, Wandsworth, Putney, Roehampton, Barnes, Mortlake, East Sheen, and Richmond, each three
deliveries.
Dulwich, Morden, Merton, Wimbleton, Petersham, and Ham, each two deliveries.
And from all the several places above-mentioned, there are likewise two posts to town every day, Sundays excepted.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

- 9 4 11 NEWS (General Post Office, July 28, 1794)

NOTICE is hereby given, that rides, for the conveyance of Letters passing by the Penny-Post, are now established to
and from Brentford, by the means of which three Deliveries of Letters daily are given to the following places, viz.
Knightsbridge, Chelsea, Brompton, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith, Turnham-green, Acton, Ealing, Brentford, and
Kew, and the intermediate Places, and two deliveries are given to Hanwell.
Likewise that two Posts to Town, one in the Morning and the other in the Afternoon, are given every day (Sunday
excepted) to each of the Places above-mentioned.
ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.

-- 9 4 1 2 NEWS (Penny Post Office, September 8, 1794)

HIS Majesty's Post Masters General, in carrying into effect a more frequent and expeditious Delivery of Letters by the
Penny Post, have established the following Regulations:
Instead of five principal Penny-post offices in London as heretofore, there are now two principal offices only; namely,
the Chief, which is removed to and held in Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street, and the Westminster, removed to and held in
Gerrard-street, Soho.
From these offices, by two sets of letter carriers being employed upon the town walks, each set going out alternately,
and by a considerable addition to the number of letter carriers, both in town and country, as also by the letters being
conveyed to and from the country letter carriers twice a day by riding messengers, and a third time outwards by the Mail
Coaches, six deliveries of letters are given to all parts of the town, and three deliveries and two returns of post, to most
parts of the country; and General Post letters arriving in town by the Mails in the morning, are also dispatched the same
morning to all parts of the Penny Post delivery.
The time by which letters must be put into the Penny Post, as also the time by which they are delivered, both in town
and country, is as follows:

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