IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 4 Series
Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive
Title: Post Office: Accounts of Packet Ship Services and British Overseas Posts
Date(s): 1773-1857
Level of description: Series
Extent: 32 volumes
Name of creator(s): Post Office
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
This series comprises accounts of British packet services and overseas posts, including records of agents and postmasters, packet stations, and packet boats. The accounts cover income, expenditure, salaries, allowances and disbursements.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
This series comprises accounts of British packet services and overseas posts, including records of agents and postmasters, packet stations, and packet boats. The accounts cover income, expenditure, salaries, allowances and disbursements.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological.
Conditions governing access:
Public Record
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Postal Heritage Trust's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. See our published policies for full details. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
A Guide to the Royal Mail Archive
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Records transferred internally from Royal Mail.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of copies:
Some of the items in this series are available on microfilm for viewing in the Search Room.
Related material:
Further information and records on packet stations and boats can be found in POST classes 9, 12, 29, 43 and 48
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: 24/03/2011 EAD validated May 2011