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Penny Post. Rates and schedules

General Post Office, June 7, 1794
Raguin Code: NEWS –9407

NOTICE is hereby given, that letters are now dispatched three times a day to the following places, viz. Peckham, Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham, Lee, Eltham, Blackheath, Woolwich, Bow, Stratford, West Ham, Plastow, East Ham, Barking, Ilford, Leytonstone, Wanstead, Walthamstow, Leyton, and Woodford.

And two deliveries of letters are given to the places undermentioned, viz. Sydenham and Charlton, in Kent; Bromley and Old Ford, in Middlesex; and Woodford Bridge, Chigwell, and Chingford, in Essex.

Letters going to any of the above Places, must be put in at Penny Post Receiving Houses in Town, by eight o'clock in the Morning. and two o'clock in the Afternoon; or they may be put in at the Principal Office for Westminster, (held in Gerrard-street, Soho) by half past eight in the Morning, and half past two in the Afternoon, or into the Chief Office in Abchurch lane, Lombard-street, by nine in the Morning, and three in the Afternoon; and such as are intended for the Places first mentioned, having three deliveries a day, must, besides the hours above stated, be put into the Receiving Houses by five in the Evening, into the Office in Gerrard-street,, by nine in the Morning, and three in the Afternoon; and such as are intended for the Places first mentioned, having three deliveries a day, must, besides the hours above stated, be put into the Receiving Houses by five in the Evening, into the Office in Abchurch-lane, by seven o'clock.

By an Act passed in the present Sessions of Parliament, the Rates of Postage for Letters sent by the Penny Post are as follow:

In any of the above Cases the Postage may be paid either at putting in, or on Delivery, at the option of
For every Letter or Packet passing from any part of the Cities of London or Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their Suburbs, to any other part of the said Cities, or Borough, &c 1d.
For every Letter or Packet passing to, or from parts within, to, or from, parts beyond the Cities of London or Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their Suburbs, and within the District of the Penny Post, such Letters or Packets not passing to or from the General Post 2d.
For every Letter or Packet passing from any part beyond the Cities of London or Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and their Suburbs, and within the District of the Penny Post, to any other part beyond the said Cities or Borough, &c. and within the said District 2d.
the Writers.
For every Letter or Packet put into the Penny Post, to be forwarded to the General Post-Office, and from thence to be conveyed by that Post 1d.
In the latter Case the Penny must be paid at putting in, and is not left to the option of the Writer.
For every Letter or Packet, first passing by the General Post, and then passing by the Penny Post Cover and above the General Postage) 1d.

N. B. No Letters or Packets, exceeding four Ounces in Weight can be sent by the Penny Post, unless such Letters or Packets shall first have passed by, or shall be intended to pass by, the General Post.

The further extension of the New Regulations in the Penny Post will be advertised as the same are carried into effect.

ANTHONY TODD, Secretary.