Post Office: Records on British Postal Agencies

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0813 POST 45 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: Records on British Postal Agencies
Date(s)	: 1865-[1910]
Level of description	: Series
Extent	: 3 files and 2 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: No further information available

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

British postal agencies, (also known as British Post Offices) were established in countries throughout the world to manage and monitor the arrangements and regulations for the conveyance of mail to and from Britain and to carry out these arrangements. Agents were appointed to conduct local affairs on behalf of the Postmaster General. Their duties included the receipt and despatch of mails, the collection of postage, maintenance of accounts and reporting to the Secretary in London any matters of concern.

In 1873, British Consuls were appointed as agents with the titles of British Post Office Agent.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records relating to the operation of British Postal Agencies.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Please see Scope and Content.

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:

For accounts of British packet services and overseas posts, including records of agents and postmasters, see POST 43, POST 4 and POST 48

For records on the establishment and operation of colonial post offices, see POST 44

Some records have been re-classified and transferred to:

POST 43, POST 48 and POST 68.

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