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id: 28533
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Account":-- Comes in from Bristol through Bath, Bradford, Trowbridge, Devizes, Westbury, Warminster, Heytesbury, Wells, Shepton Mallet


id: 20702
type: DATE
entity:
  15 25 August 10 July 1 July 10 25 15 25 September 9 August 1 August 10 25 15 25 October 10 September 1 September 10 26 15 25 November 10 October 1 October 10 25 15 25 December 10 November 1 November 10 26 15 25 January 10 December 1 December 10 25 15 25 February 9


id: 20702
type: DATE
entity:
  15 25 July 8 June 1 June 10 25 15 25 August 8 July 1 July 10 24 15 25 September 9 August 1 August 10 24 15 25 October 9 September 1 September 10 25 15 25 November 8 October 1 October 10 24 15 25 December 9


id: 20702
type: DATE
entity:
  20 30 June 13 15 June 15 June 4 June 14 28 June 1 July 1 20 30 July 14 15 16 July 5 July 15 29 July 1 31


id: 44171
type: WORK_OF_ART
entity:
  Messenger of Sympathy and Love Servant of Parted Friends Consoler of the Lonely Bond of the Scattered Family Enlarger of the Common Life Carrier of News and Knowledge Instruments of Trade and Industry Promoter of Mutual Acquaintance Of Peace and Good Will Among Men and Nations


id: 44171
type: ORG
entity:
  Clerks National Rural Letter-Carriers Association National Association of Letter-Carriers National Federation of Rural Carriers National Association of Supervisory Employees National Federation of Federal Employees National Association of Post-office


id: 42129
type: PRODUCT
entity:
  | | Bristol | 33,865 | 35,720 | | Cheltenham | 11,834 | 12,315 | | Exeter | 16,334 | 16,739 | | Hull


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id: 19414
title: General Instructions for the Guidance of Post Office Inspectors in the Dominion of Canada
author: Campbell, Alexander
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  You and any officer under you having the rank of Assistant P.O. Inspector, have authority to require any Postmaster or Assistant Postmaster in any Post Offices, Mail Contractor or other person in the should be reported to the Postmaster General, the name of the office 6. Letters from Post Office Department not numbered. 9. Book for recording number of miles travelled by Railway Mail case may be reported on for the Postmaster General''s consideration. 2. In cases where the Postmaster is required to perform duty between required to re-mail letters and papers for and from other offices. however, a Railway Mail Clerk is reported to the Postmaster General as 8. When a Mail Clerk or Postmaster has a large number of letters for 1. All cases of alleged loss of mails or letters, or of abstraction the date of the post-mark of the office at which mailed, and by the


id: 20702
author: MacQueen, James
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summary:
  yearly cost of mail communications by the aid of steam, to every West Indies, and steam from Falmouth to Fayal, with sailing-packets The steam-boats from Falmouth to Fayal would carry out all the mails returning with the mails for Great Britain from all the places Two steam-boats would perform this work, giving two mails each month, New York, the point of communication between Fayal and British North West Indian and South American packets returning to the central point, mails were carried by sailing packets on the four great lines, that By steam-boats the course of communication between Great Britain and communication for the return mails from the West Indies for Europe, so plan, the outward mails from Great Britain, by steamers, would reach To extend the mail communications between Great Britain and all places mail communication between the two places 105 days. thirty sailing packets; four steamers in the West Indies; ten mail

title:
  A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World


id: 22812
title: The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo
author: Blossom, Thomas
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summary:
  transportation service of the Post-Office Department, were originally The gross receipts of the post-office at Buffalo, for the years given in Post-office establishment of the present day. establish post-offices throughout the American colonies, appointed Postmaster-General "to keep one chief letter-office in New York and and improving the post-offices and the mail service. the post-route from Canandaigua to Niagara shall pass by Buffalo Creek. recollected that the post-office at Buffalo was not established until books of the Post-office Department that mail service, once in two In 1815, the mail was carried from Buffalo to Erie once a week, leaving About the first of the year 1819 the post-office at Buffalo was made a On the 14th of July, 1824, the mail routes by which the Buffalo office then arriving and departing weekly from the Buffalo post-office was statement in regard to the rates of letter postage since the post-office


id: 28533
author: Tombs, Robert Charles
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  [Illustration: THE OLD POST-HOUSE IN DOLPHIN STREET, BRISTOL.] 1662.--EXCHANGE AVENUE AND SMALL STREET POST OFFICES, BRISTOL. The first half of the present Bristol Post Office premises in Small THE OLD GENERAL POST OFFICE IN LOMBARD STREET, LONDON.] THE OLD GENERAL POST OFFICE IN LOMBARD STREET, LONDON.] BRISTOL MAIL COACH ANNOUNCEMENTS, 1802-1830.--THE NEW GENERAL POST offered by the London, Bath, and Bristol mail coaches--to and from Southampton and general coach offices, Bush Inn and Tavern, Bristol, THE BRISTOL, BATH AND LONDON COACH TAKING UP MAILS WITHOUT HALTING.] seven coaches carrying West of England mails--the Bath, Bristol, POST OFFICES IN LONDON AND BRISTOL, 1881-1901. Bristol Post Office at the end of the year 1903. SMALL (THE POST OFFICE) STREET, BRISTOL. SMALL (THE POST OFFICE) STREET, BRISTOL. SMALL (THE POST OFFICE) STREET, BRISTOL. General Post Office, Bristol. London to Bristol Royal Mail Coach of 100 years since, with

title:
  The King''s Post Being a volume of historical facts relating to the posts, mail coaches, coach roads, and railway mail services of and connected with the ancient city of Bristol from 1580 to the present time


id: 27688
title: A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee Retrospect
author: Hyde, James Wilson
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summary:
  place in the Post Office service during the past hundred years; and the and uncertain the mail service by post was in the early years of the then several years in the Post Office service, and desired to obtain a time of the introduction of mail-coaches, just about a hundred years 1798 a post-boy carrying certain Selby mails was robbed near that place, later days of the mail-coach service. the arrival of the London mail-coach in Glasgow, when carrying the first former times, and down to the period of the mail-coaches, the A hundred years ago the chief post-office in London was situated in According to a time-table of the period, a letter posted at post-office here is an unsafe conveyance; many of the letters we receive the total number of letters passing through the Post Office in this times the number of letters which passed through the post fifty years


id: 21693
title: Post Haste
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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summary:
  "Good-evening, Mike," said George Aspel, as the man approached. "Come, George, let''s go back," said Phil, quickly, "we''ve been looking "It''s not exactly a letter, Master Phil," said the post-runner slowly. "Well then, I''ll send it," said Aspel, closing the letter; "do you know At that moment Miss Lillycrop''s door opened and little Tottie issued George Aspel passed the front of the General Post-Office on his way to "It''s only a few letters," said Aspel; "Mr Blurt explained matters to arrived at the Returned Letter Office two days ago, having been posted I suppose little Bones is behind it," said Miss Stivergill.--"Set The man ran up the steps, posted his letter, which had missed the mail-Aspel," said Peter Pax. Holding on to her two friends, Tottie was swept along the streets at a "Good-bye, little Peter, till we meet again," said Miss Stivergill, "That''s a long time, dear Maria," said Miss Lillycrop, with a little


id: 4296
title: Friarswood Post Office
author: Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary)
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summary:
  ''I''m sure I hope he''s after no harm,'' said Mrs. King; ''I don''t like to ''Oh,'' said Ellen, ''Harold likes company, you see, Sir, and will take up ''Ellen--Harold--come down to your tea!'' called Mrs. King. ''Well!'' said Mrs. King, ''I declare he looks like a picture I have seen--'' ''Poor lad,'' said Mrs. King, ''it seems a pity he should come to such a ''You''re getting a big boy, Harold, and it is lonely for you,'' said Mrs. King reluctantly; ''and if the lad is a good lad I''d not cast up his ''Alfred,'' said Ellen, ''do you know where Harold is? have thought you would we have cared for poor Mother and Alfred,'' said only come to make you eat yours like a good boy, as Mr. Cope said you ''Then you think this poor lad will be ill a long time, Sir?'' said Mrs. King, when Mr. Blunt was preparing to depart.


id: 38328
title: The History of the Post Office, from Its Establishment Down to 1836
author: Joyce, Herbert
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summary:
  Office--New Ship-letter Act--Mail Service to India and the Cape-centre of the Post Office system, many letters passed in those days these hundred letters to the General Post Office, a shipmaster on his Act of Parliament for establishing a General Post Office all letters and subjected to the same rates of postage as general post letters; and that General Letter Office in London [shall be demanded and received the sum cross-post letters the postmasters-general had received, at the highest, the offices for the receipt of general post letters were kept open and postmasters-general no appointment within the Post Office could be single letter of any importance was received at the Post Office without Offices for the receipt of general post letters are return of the number of letters passing through the London Post Office first used in London to bring letters to the General Post Office, 316 offices for letters by the general post, 409, 423


id: 37238
title: The History of the Post Office in British North America
author: Smith, William
txt: ./txt/37238.txt
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summary:
  colonial postal system and the general post office in London, to which monthly service between the Canadian post offices and New York, In America, the general post offices at Boston, New York and treasury, the postmaster general stated that the post office in America the general post office, Franklin states that the mails travel by night postmaster general of Canada, and the post office department at right of the British post office to collect postage in Canada was called from Canada was made part of the revenue of the general post office in United States post office arranged to have the British mails for New The post office committee called the deputy postmaster general before the postmaster general authority over the colonial post office and general post office and the legislatures of Upper and Lower Canada, The secretary of the general post office, in a letter to the postmaster


id: 40840
author: Holbrook, James
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summary:
  Practical Information--Post-Office Laws--Improved Letter masters, post-office clerks, and mail messengers, whose spheres of way letters were obtained from all these post masters in the course of In the mean time, the Post-Office Department had been informed of the Mail Key--A Lady Assistant--Post-Office Records--The official the Mail Key--A Lady Assistant--Post-Office Records--The official Bank Letter lost--The Thief decoyed--Post-Office at Bank Letter lost--The Thief decoyed--Post-Office at This person had held the office of post master in a place of some note the New York post-office, was one referring to a letter written by a On the following day a letter was deposited in the post-office, at to say that he had some weeks since mailed a letter at the post-office many of the letters passing-through the post-office, before the A person receiving a letter from the post-office by mistake, or post-office, any letter or packet; or, if any person shall take

title:
  Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department


id: 40469
title: An Historical Summary of the Post Office in Scotland
author: Lang, T. B. (Thomas Bamford)
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  CONTROLLER, SORTING DEPARTMENT, GENERAL POST OFFICE, EDINBURGH. Robert Mein, merchant,[10] and Keeper of the Letter Office, Edinburgh, settling and establishing a General Post Office," the Scottish Parliament "ordains and appoints a General Post Office to be kept within Postmaster-General is ordered to take care that Posts are established In 1708, the business of the General Post Office at Edinburgh was establishment of Horse Posts on the Western Road from Edinburgh. first regular Horse Post in Scotland appears to have been from Edinburgh Deputy Postmaster-General for Scotland, and would take office on the 1st In 1730, the yearly revenue of the Post Office establishment in Scotland carried more letters than the Post Office, at least in the country In 1754, the revenue of the General Post Office in Scotland was £8927, In April 1713, the Post Office in Edinburgh was removed to the first POSTMASTER-GENERAL OF GREAT BRITAIN, and the Office in SCOTLAND was


id: 39978
title: The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
author: Hyde, James Wilson
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summary:
  said Mails, or Bags of Letters, at the next Post Town or letters in small towns were not always in the pay of the Post-office or Post-office work of carrying letters for money. travelling post-offices the plan of carrying letters away from their London Post-office indistinctly addressed letters are at once set aside, "A person applied at the Leeds post-office, and stated that two letters the Post-office and received the letter, and that he had afterwards left day were being carried to the Lombard Street Post-office, this letter bank that the letter had not been received; but the Post-office was able A person in that town having posted a letter with an old CURIOUS LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE POST-OFFICE. arrived at the Returned-letter office two days ago, having been posted post-office on the same day for letters, and, as it happened, applying mail-coaches, the Post-office was very generally to be found established


id: 34197
title: The Bristol Royal Mail: Post, Telegraph, and Telephone
author: Tombs, Robert Charles
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summary:
  There is a model of an old mail coach at the General Post Office, St. Martin''s-le-Grand, London, popularly supposed to be the model of the distance between the Post Office of London and Bristol, with a view to Bristol Post Office, there to await despatch by day mails to towns in In the Bristol district there is a railway Post Office apparatus station There is record of a Post Office having been established in Bristol by the Bristol Post Office as located there, and the old square open public About 5,500 ship letters were brought to the Bristol Post Office A case occurred at a Bristol Post Office fifteen years since, in which a Bristol Post Office, and kept in training for telegraph service with the years the Bristol Post Office has had two out of the nine The Bristol Post Office has its returned letter branch, with which


id: 44171
title: The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office
author: Jefferies, Thomas C.
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summary:
  Post-office Department by four assistant postmasters-general. for the post-offices and railway mail service. United States Post-Office," called the postal service "the mightiest postmasters, new post-offices, railway mail service, contracts for "chief letter office" in the City of New York, Philadelphia having been _The New York General Post-office To-day_ The world''s greatest post-office to-day is the New York General the New York post-office was published in the year 1786, and the first the future as the first post-office in New York City, located in the matter of providing the post-office at New York with a large amount of [Illustration: _Carriers sorting mail in the General Post Office._] The Motor Vehicle Service of the New York post-office is in charge The Foreign Station of the New York post-office stands out among the One of the most important departments of the New York post-office is the issue and payment of money-orders, the New York post-office is the


id: 42129
title: Her Majesty''s Mails An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-Office
author: Lewins, William
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summary:
  The London Post-Office was managed by the Postmaster-General 1. By its provisions a General Post and Letter-Office is established taken, and the letters were all passed through the Post-Office the same the same line (with all of which the Post-Office sent ship-letters), letters, cost the Post-Office authorities, as the simple expense of of registered letters would so increase, that other Post-Office work law with respect to the detaining of letters in the General Post-Office, The two classes of "General Post" and "London District" letter-carriers letters passing through the Post-Office during the year 1863 was great number of letters remained, in the words of the Post-Office [185] About two hundred letters pass through the General Post-Office letter addressed to the Secretary of the Post-Office, from Lord letter was, that _it had not been sent through the Post-Office_, as it first post) to the Returned Letter Office. Each letter, put into the Post-Office, is forwarded,


id: 42983
title: The History of the British Post Office
author: Hemmeon, Joseph Clarence
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summary:
  Reductions in letter, newspaper, and book post rates. called the Post Office of England, and one Postmaster-General nominated increased greatly the number of letters carried by the General Post. These orders were given to all the Post Office clerks and letter by an act of Parliament passed in the same year, the Post Office was letters passing first by the General Post, for on these the old rate letter collected.[210] The General Post receiving-houses closed at 7 against each postmaster, one for unpaid letters posted in London, and Penny Post Letters.[603] Three years later the rates and distances for Postmasters-General of England might at any time establish post offices the high rates charged by the Post Office for the conveyance of letters For letters delivered to the Post Office to be sent country bank notes delivered at the General Post Office in London. office of Postmaster-General and not the carrying of letters.[757]


id: 45092
title: The Post Office of India and Its Story
author: Clarke, Geoffrey
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summary:
  Directors-General of the Post Office of India, for their assistance in to use the new postage stamps, post offices were forbidden to accept any value-payable postal article; at the same time the Post Office is Mail Service, which used to be called the Travelling Post Office. money order work post offices were classified under four heads: into the nearest post office in order to show the postal importance Post Office clerks could not sort letters for all stations in India, Postal Service, Suez and Bombay," was raised to six mail officers, Field Postal Service has been a feature of the Indian Post Office for THE INDIAN FIELD POST OFFICE DURING THE GREAT WAR THE INDIAN FIELD POST OFFICE DURING THE GREAT WAR 4. The post offices and mail lines in Oude, generally, became post offices, Peshawar Division, was placed in charge of field postal Postmaster-General, Punjab, arranged for field post offices, and the


id: 51530
title: The Last Letter
author: Leiber, Fritz
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summary:
  Black Sorter gulped down ten thousand pieces of first-class mail. a rather wooden-looking man named Krumbine, also bald, recognized "Sit down, Potshelter," the SBI Man said. "Krumbine, a letter turned up in the first-class mail this morning." Take another tranquilizer, Potshelter, and hand over the tray." Krumbine received it with trembling fingers, started to pick up a big You know, letters, characters--like books." "No, no, Krumbine." Potshelter nervously popped a square orange tablet "No code," Potshelter said darkly, proferring the envelope. advertisement--Boy Next Door or--that kind of thing--printed to look Then his gaze fell on the hand-addressed envelope on Krumbine''s desk "Great Scott, boy, where was Your Girl Next Door?" Potshelter, a faraway look in his eyes, said softly, "I think I''m But Krumbine thundered on at Richard Rowe with, "Good Lord, I can see boy, why did you--er--written this letter to this particular girl? "Well, I don''t know--" Krumbine began.


id: 58717
title: The Early History of the Post in Grant and Farm
author: Hyde, James Wilson
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summary:
  New office created of Postmaster for Foreign Posts, Patent granted to Witherings for Foreign Letter Office 91 Witherings as regards the Foreign Letter Office 181 Foreign Letter Office remains with Witherings, the Foreign Letter Office carried on for behoof of Witherings'' Post Office farmed to Thurloe--Interception of letters 237 Early post-office letter-books preserved 300 son, the said office of Postmaster of England for Foreign Parts, for Witherings, gentlemen, the office of place of Postmaster of England for case Post paid be written upon any Letter that shall come from London, "Petitioner and the carriers of Norwich were lately questioned by Mr. Witherings touching the carriage of letters; and the Lords ordered a for 40 years has been postmaster in the said place, which office he of Postmaster of Foreign Parts as also of the Letter Office within Postmaster-General, but his connection with the Post Office was of


