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