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Penny Post. Introduction of the Penny Post in Dublin. List of Receiving Houses

General Post Office, Dublin, September 28, 1773
Raguin Code: NEWS –7301

His Majesty's Postmaster General having been pleased to direct that, for the benefit of the internal correspondence of this City, a PENNY POST OFFICE shall be established therein; Notice is therefore hereby given that in pursuance of such directions, a PENNY POST will be established on the eleventh day of October next; subject to the folowing regulations viz. All letters and packets, not exceeding the weight of four ounces, will be forwarded from the PENNY POST OFFICE, in the GENERAL POST OFFICE YARD, twice every day (Sundays excepted) viz. at nine o'clock in the morning and four o'clock in the afternoon, to any part of the City of Dublin.

A Penny is to be paid with every letter put into the PENNY POST OFFICE, or into any of the Receiving Houses, for which Penny, every such letter will be delivered to the Person to whom it is addressed within the limits specified, without any further charge; but every letter with which a Penny is not paid, will be opened and returned to the writer.

To extend as far as possible the benefits of this Establishment, to every part of the City, Eighteen Receiving Houses will be established at the following places, where letters may be put in every day from Eight in the Morning, till Ten at Night (Sundays excepted) on the terms before mentioned.

Wormwood Gate, Francis Street, Bride Street, Great Cuffe Street, Anne Street, Clare Street, Castle Street, Custom House - Coffee House, George Quay, Barrack Street, West Arran Street, North King Street, Bolton Street, Britain Street, Mary Street, Capel Street, near Essex Bridge, Abbey Street, Ship Street.

Letters containing money or Things of Value to be forwarded by the Penny Post, must be delivered open to the Officer in waiting at the Penny Post Office, to be entered, otherwise the Office will not be in any degree answerable for their miscarriage.

All persons are requested to be exact as possible in the Direction of Penny Post Letters, particularly those addressed to Lodgers, and to specify the names of the landlord, which will greatly tend to facilitate their delivery. As a further means, to answer this end, and as a check upon the Letter Carriers, every letter that after a weeks enquiry, shall be returned by them, will be opened, and sent back to the writer, Gratis, if his or her place of residence can be discovered; to the end that if the reason assigned by the Letter Carrier, on the cover, for the non-delivery of such letter, does not prove satisfactory, the writer may have an opportunity of discovering where the fault lay, by a complaint to the Comptroller of the Penny Post Office.

JOHN WALCOT, Secretary.