Post Office: Accounts of Packet Ship Services and British Overseas Posts

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0813 POST 4 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: 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 & 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

Related material:

Further information and records on packet stations and boats can be found in POST classes 9, 12, 29, 43 and 48

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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