Post Office: Overseas Mail Organisation: Records on Colonial Post Offices

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0813 POST 44 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: Overseas Mail Organisation: Records on Colonial Post Offices
Date(s)	: 1763-1951
Level of description	: Series
Extent	: 40 files and 28 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: No further information available

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This series relates to the establishment and operation of colonial post offices in British North America [Canada], Australia and New Zealand. The records include instructions from the Postmaster General via the Secretary (POST 44/1-12), returns to surveys relating to the volume of mail processed and the costs of running the offices, details of the staff employed at these offices and their duties (POST 44/24-33).

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The material is arranged in chronological order within series.

Conditions governing access:

Public Record

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also; POST 9/19-22, Disbursements and Receipts Home and Colonial, POST 9/44-58, Debt ledgers, including colonies and POST 9/164, Alterations to salaries, Home and Colonial.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry checked by Barbara Ball

Rules or conventions:

Compiled in compliance with General Internation 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