Post Office: Staff Pensions and Superannuation

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0813 POST 66 Series
Held at	: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://catalogue.postalmuseum.org/ ›
Full title	: Post Office: Staff Pensions and Superannuation
Date(s)	: 1713-1992
Level of description	: Series
Extent	: 19 files and 44 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: No further information available

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

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Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This series relates to arrangements for the payment of pensions, the establishment of the Superannuation Fund in 1821 and the development of the types of pensions payable to include both contributory and non-contributory pensions.

POST 66/18-19 relates to the establishment of the allowance form system and POST 66/22 concerns discussions on the format of order books. POST 66/20 and 22 relate specifically to pensions paid in Guernsey and Jersey . POST 66/24 comprises brief histories of paid allowance and pension orders and postmasters accounts for the twentieth century. The class also includes information on changes to women's employment and salaries, pension fraud and copies of documents conveying a grace and favour pension paid to the Duke of Schonburg and Leinster (POST 66/1).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Date order within series.

Conditions governing access:

Public Record

Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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Allied Materials

Related material:

Further information may be found in POST 1 Treasury letters, which comprise recommendations to the treasury for pensions and gratuities, authorisation for expenditure, applications for pensions, and pension registers. POST 35 and POST 38 both have indexes to the names of staff receiving a pension which relate to details of that pension in the minutes. These details include the recipient's former employment and the amount paid.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry checked by Barbara Ball

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:
Entry checked June 2011