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Austrian Netherlands. Letters to members of the British army to be sent free of foreign postage

General Post-Office, London, October 24, 1743
Raguin Code: NEWS –4307

Whereas the Troops of Great Britain are marching, or march'd, into their Winter Quarters in the Austrian Netherlands; This is to inform the Publick, that all Letters directed for the Officers, Soldiers, and others belonging to, or attending on the said Army, will be sent from this Office free of the Foreign Postage, and that only the Inland Postage will be demanded for such Letters, so address'd or directed to the Army aforesaid, as comes from out of the several Parts of the Country, without which Inland Postage the said Letters will not be forwarded.

GEO. SHELVOCKE, Secretary.