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British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Post Office: Ancillary Services


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0813 POST 28 Series

Held at: British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

Title: Post Office: Ancillary Services

Date(s): 1888-1996

Level of description: Series

Extent: 86 files and 24 volumes

Name of creator(s): Post Office

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This series comprises material relating to Post Office services supplementary to the core activity of the business. It consists of reports, minutes, correspondence and memoranda relating to the introduction, operation and development of individual Post Office ancillary services, their profit and expenditure, recommended improvements and alterations, and information sheets and guides to the services.

Contains some pieces originally in POST 22.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This series comprises material relating to Post Office services supplementary to the core activity of the business. It consists of reports, minutes, correspondence and memoranda relating to the introduction, operation and development of individual Post Office ancillary services, their profit and expenditure, recommended improvements and alterations, and information sheets and guides to the services.

Contains some pieces originally in POST 22.

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

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 transfer May 2011


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business history | History
Business management | Management
Postal services | Communication industry

Personal names

Corporate names
Post Office | GPO

Places