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Penny Post. Mail will be picked up and delivered on holy days

May 15-19, 1684
Raguin Code: NEWS *8405

These are to give Notice, That the Officers of the Penny-Post, will give their attendance at their several Offices in the ensuing Holy-days as at other times; Therefore all Persons who send Letters on those days, are desired to leave them at such Coffee-Houses, and other Receivers whose Shops will be then open, that they may be Collected and delivered in due time; And for the more speedy Conveyance of General Post-Letters to all Towns near London where the Penny-Post does constantly go, This is farther to give Notice, That the Messengers of the Penny-Post are appointed by the General Post Office to deliver all such Letters as come from any part of the Kings Dominions for the said Towns, the same day that they come to London, to the end that all Persons may have time to answer the said Letters by the next Post following, which Answers will come safe to the General Post Office in London, if delivered into the Receivers of the Penny-Post in the said Country Towns.