Page 211 - British Post Office Notices 1666 to 1799

1790-1799

Letters going through London, for example, from Enfield to Mitcham, or Richmond, and vice versa, and put in to go by the
morning Post, are delivered the same evening; and if put in to go by the afternoon Post, they are delivered between 7 and 9
o'clock next morning; or if going to places having less than 3 deliveries, between ten and one o'clock next day.
Also, letters dispatched from tovm by the Mails on Saturday nights, are delivered in all parts of the country, within the
usual route of the Letter-carriers, on Sunday mornings.
Places marked thus * in the above List are served by the tovm Letter-carriers, but are too distant from the principal
Offices to be served more than three times a day; the time therefore, by which letters must be put in for such places, is that
stated in the above table for the lst, 3d, and 5th tovm deliveries in which they are included; and the departure of the post
also from such places, corresponds with the lst, 3d, and Sth time of departure from the tovm receiving houses, (viz. that of 8
in the morning, 12 at noon, and 5 in the afternoon) but is something earlier, as a reference to each will shew, on account of
their distance, as is also the delivery in proportion later, for the same reason.

POSfAGE.

By an Act passed in the last Sessions, entitled, ''.An Act for regulating the Postage and Conveyance of Letters by the
Carriage called The Penny Post;" the Rates of Postage for Letters passing by that conveyance are as follow:
For every Letter or Packet passing from any part of the Cities of London or Westminster, the Borough of
Southwark, and their Suburbs, to any other part of the said Cities, or Borough, &c ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1d.
For every Letter or Packet passing to or from parts within, to or from parts beyond the Cities of
London or Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their Suburbs, and within the District of the
Penny Post, such letters or Packets not passing to or from the General Post •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 2d.
For every Letter or Packet passing from any part beyond the Cities of London or Westminster, the Borough
of Southwark, and their Suburbs, and within the District of the Penny Post, to any other part beyond
the said Cities or Borough, &c. and within the said District ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 2d.

In any of the above Cases the Postage may be paid either at putting in, or on Delivery, at the option of
the Writers.
For every Letter or Packet put into the Penny Post, to be forwarded to the General Post-Office, and from
thence to be conveyed by that Post ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1d.
In the latter Case the Penny must be paid at putting in, and is not left to the option of the Writer.
For every Letter or Packet, first passing by the General Post, and then passing by the Penny Post (over
and above the General Postage) • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1d.
N. B. No Letters or Packets, exceeding four Ounces in Weight, can be sent by the Penny Post, unless such Letters or
Packets shall first have passed by, or shall be intended to pass by, the General Post.
CHARLES W ALCOT, Comptroller.
EDWARD JOHNSON, Deputy Comptroller.
Persons applying at the Chief Office in Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; or at the Westminster Office, in Gerard-
street, Soho, may be furnished with a copy of this advertisement.

-- 9 413 NEWS (General Post Office, September 8, 1794)

JOSEPH SAUNDERS, a Letter Carrier in the Penny Post Office, has been dismissed from his Employment, for detaining
and neglecting to deliver several Letters entrusted to him for delivery.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

- 9 414 NEWS (General Post-Office, November 4, 1794)

NOTICE is hereby given, That the PACKET BOATS employed between Weymouth and the Islands of Guernsey and
Jersey, will in future sail from Weymouth on Saturdays instead of Thursdays and that Letters to go by that Conveyance must
be put into this Office on the Fridays instead of Wednesdays.
ANTHONY TODD, Sec.

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