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Penny Post. Schedule of despatches and deliveries

General Post-Office, May 28, 1794
Raguin Code: NEWS –9406

THE Post-Master General having been pleased to order a more frequent and expeditious Delivery of Letters by the Penny Post, Notice is hereby given, that Letters are now delivered to all Parts of the Town Six Times a day, and it is intended, as soon as the necessary Arrangements can be completed, to give Three Deliveries a Day to most Parts of the Country within the Circuit of the Penny Post.

The Hours by which Letters must be put in at the different Receiving Houses for each Delivery, are the same in all Parts of the Town, viz. Eight, Ten and Twelve o'Clock in the Morning, and Two, Five and Eight in the Afternoon; and the Hours by which they must be put in for Places in the Country will be Eight in the Morning, and Two and Five in the Afternoon.

From most Parts of the Country within the Delivery of the Penny Post there will be Two Posts to London every Day, (Sunday excepted). The Hours of Dispatch will be specified in a Label affixed in the Office at each Place.

The Two Chief Penny Post Offices are in Abchurch-Lane, Lombard-Street, and Gerrard-Street, Soho; the other Principal Offices being laid aside.

ANTH. TODD, Secretary.