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           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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