Re-organization of the London Penny Post. A detailed listing (34 Geo 3, c17)

HIS Majesty's Post Masters General, in carrying into effect a more frequent and expeditious Delivery of Letters by the Penny Post, have established the following Regulations:

Instead of five principal Penny-post offices in London as heretofore, there are now two principal offices only; namely, the Chief, which is removed to and held in Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street, and the Westminster, removed to and held in Gerrard-street, Soho.

From these offices, by two sets of letter carriers being employed upon the town walks, each set going out alternately, and by a considerable addition to the number of letter carriers, both in town and country, as also by the letters being conveyed to and from the country letter carriers twice a day by riding messengers, and a third time outwards by the Mail Coaches, six deliveries of letters are given to all parts of the town, and three deliveries and two returns of post, to most parts of the country; and General Post letters arriving in town by the Mails in the morning, are also dispatched the same morning to all parts of the Penny Post delivery.

The time by which letters must be put into the Penny Post, as also the time by which they are delivered, both in town and country, is as follows:

For the Town delivery.

A If put in at any of the Receiving Houses in Town.
B At either of the two principal Offices.
C Or at the principal Office for the same District of the Town in which the Place is situated. *
D They are delivered in general between the Times undermentioned.

* The town is divided between the two principal offices thus, all parts to the eastward of Gray's-inn-lane, Holborn-bars, Chancery-lane, with its communications, Temple-bar, Narrow-wall, Surry, Lambeth-marsh, and the Asylum, are in the district of the Chief Office; and all parts to the westward of these places inclusive, are in the district of the Westminster Office.

For the Country Delivery.

A If put in at any of the Receiving Houses in Town.
B At either of the two principal Offices.
C Or at the principal Office to which the Place is attached *
D They are delivered in general between the Times undermentioned.

* The Principal Office to which the several places in the country are attached is pointed out by the letters C and W in the following list, which signify the Chief and Westminster Offices.

List of Places in the delivery of the Penny Post.

Shewing also to which of the Two Principal Offices each Place is immediately attached, the number of deliveries a day given to each, and the time fixed for the departure of the Post from such where Receiving Houses are established.

N. B. Those having no time of Departure specified, are such as have no Receiving Houses.

Letters dispatched from the country in the morning, are delivered in all parts of London between half past 11 and one o'clock the same day; and those dispatched in the afternoon are delivered between half past six and eight the same evening.

Letters going through London, for example, from Enfield to Mitcham, or Richmond, and vice versa, and put in to go by the morning Post, are delivered the same evening; and if put in to go by the afternoon Post, they are delivered between 7 and 9 o'clock next morning; or if going to places having less than 3 deliveries, between ten and one o'clock next day.

Also, letters dispatched from town by the Mails on Saturday nights, are delivered in all parts of the country, within the usual route of the Letter-carriers, on Sunday mornings.

Places marked thus * in the above List are served by the town Letter-carriers, but are too distant from the principal Offices to be served more than three times a day; the time therefore, by which letters must be put in for such places, is that stated in the above table for the 1st, 3d, and 5th town deliveries in which they are included; and the departure of the post also from such places, corresponds with the 1st, 3d, and 5th time of departure from the town receiving houses, (viz. that of 8 in the morning, 12 at noon, and 5 in the afternoon) but is something earlier, as a reference to each will shew, on account of their distance, as is also the delivery in proportion later, for the same reason.

POSTAGE.

By an Act passed in the last Sessions, entitled, "An Act for regulating the Postage and Conveyance of Letters by the Carriage called The Penny Post;" the Rates of Postage for Letters passing by that conveyance are as follow:

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.

CHARLES WALCOT, Comptroller.
EDWARD JOHNSON, Deputy Comptroller.

Persons applying at the Chief Office in Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; or at the Westminster Office, in Gerard-street, Soho, may be furnished with a copy of this advertisement.