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Listing of Notices 1760 to 1769

References at right are the codes from the Raguin book.

Passports are required to come from or go to Holland
General Post Office, April 12, 1760
NEWS –6002
Spain. Letters going through France will be dispatched twice a week instead of once
General Post-Office, June 6, 1760
NEWS –6003
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, July 7, 1760
NEWS –6004
Bank note found in the yard of the post office
General Post-Office, London, May 29, 1761
NEWS –6101
Improvement of correspondence. List of new cross roads
General Post-Office, June, 1761
NEWS –6102
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post Office, July 1, 1761
NEWS –6103
Corunna. January 5th will be the date of the last dispatch during the present war
General Post Office, January 1, 1762
NEWS –6201
Spain. During the present war, no more letters can be received or forwarded
General Post Office, January 15, 1762
NEWS –6202
Isle of Bellisle. Letters to be forwarded from Plymouth by two vessels
General Post Office, London, February 5, 1762
NEWS –6203
Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Newcastle and Durham
General Post Office, March 13, 1762
NEWS –6204
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post Office, June 28, 1762
NEWS –6205
Mail robbery. Bath mail robbed in his way to Petty France, Gloucestershire
General Post-Office, July 26, 1762
NEWS –6206
Havanna. Mail dispatched with the West India Mail
General Post Office, October 29, 1762
NEWS –6207
France, Spain, Sicily, Switzerland & Turkey. Re-opening of communication with and through France
General Post Office, November 30, 1762
NEWS –6208
No more passports needed to go to Holland
General Post Office, December 7, 1762
NEWS –6209
Postal rates. Domestic, colonial & foreign
General Post-Office, December 8, 1762
OTHR –6210
Flanders. Mail to go via Ostend instead of via Flushing, every Tuesday & Friday
General Post-Office, December 11, 1762
NEWS –6211
France, Holland, Flanders. Re-opening of communications. Schedule. No passports needed
General Post-Office, December 14, 1762
NEWS –6212
Extension of the Bye night mail beyond Worcester to Ledbury and Hereford
General Post-Office, February 19, 1763
NEWS –6301
Barbados, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, &c. March 5 departure by the "Princess Augusta"
General Post-Office, February 19, 1763
NEWS –6302
Spain & Portugal. Schedule via Corunna
General Post Office, March 29, 1763
NEWS –6303
France, Portugal, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, &c. Schedule
General Post-Office, April 5, 1763
NEWS –6304
Postal rates. Domestic, colonial & foreign
General Post-Office, London, May 1, 1763
OTHR –6305
Victualling Office announcement
Victualling Office, June 15, 1763
NEWS –6306
Tunbridge Wells. Summer schedule
General Post Office, June 20, 1763
NEWS –6307
Mail robbery. Post boy was robbed of the Chester mail on Fenchley Common
General Post-Office, Wednesday, September 7, 1763
NEWS –6308
Mail improvement. New Bye night mails in Scotland
General Post-Office, October 1, 1763
NEWS –6309
New York. Second Saturday of every month & extraordinary mail on December 26th, from Falmouth
General Post Office, November 5, 1763
NEWS –6310
Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Maidstone and Rochester
General Post-Office, Monday, November 7, 1763
NEWS –6311
Germany, Turkey & Levant. Mail to be marked "via Flanders" otherwise will go via Holland
General Post-Office, December 31, 1763
NEWS –6312
Mail robbery. Rye Mail bags stolen in front of the post office
General Post-Office, December 31, 1763
NEWS –6313
Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Christopher's, &c. Schedule & postage rates
General Post Office, January 7, 1764
NEWS –6401
Mail robbery. Post boy was robbed between York and Malton
General Post-Office, February 7, 1764
NEWS –6402
Franking. Regulations of the free franking system. Penalties. (4 Geo 3, c24)
General Post-Office, April 20, 1764
NEWS –6403
West Indies, United States. July 12 "Hillsborough" departure postponed
General Post-Office, June 8, 1764
NEWS –6404
West Indies, United States. "Grenville" packet. Rates and schedule
General Post-Office, October 9, 1764
NEWS –6405
Undeliverable London Penny-Post letters to be returned free
Penny-Post Office, October 24, 1764
OTHR –6405A
West Indies, Pensacola, Savanna, &c. Mail to be dispatched January 10th by the "Suffolk"
General Post Office, November 27, 1764
NEWS –6406
West Indies, Pensacola, Savanna, &c. Mail to be dispatched March 14th by the "Hillsborough"
General Post-Office, February 12, 1765
NEWS –6501
Illegal conveyance of letters. A Caution. Penalties
General Post-Office, April 2, 1765
NEWS –6502
Illegal conveyance of letters. A Caution. Penalties
General Post-Office, Dublin, April 20, 1765
NEWS –6503
Hamburg. Domestic rates. Rates to and inside North America. &c. &c. (5 Geo 3, c25)
General Post-Office, June 8, 1765
NEWS –6504
West Indies, Pensacola, Savanna, &c. Mail to be dispatched July 11th by the "Grenville"
General Post-Office, June 11, 1765
NEWS –6505
Tunbridge Wells, Brighthelmstone, Bromley & Sevenoaks. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, June 22, 1765
NEWS –6506
West Indies, Pensacola, Charleston. Mail to be dispatched September 12th by the "Grantham"
General Post-Office, September 3, 1765
NEWS –6507
West Indies, Florida, South Carolina. Mail to be dispatched November 14th by the "Hillsborough"
General Post Office, November 8, 1765
NEWS –6508
Isle of Man. Mail to go from Whitehaven once a fortnight. Postage rate two pence
General Post-Office, December 7, 1765
NEWS –6509
Barbadoes, Antigua, Jamaica, St. Christopher's, Grenada, Pensacola & Charleston. Schedule
General Post-Office, March 8, 1766
NEWS –6601
Mail robbery. Post boy robbed between Warminster and Westbury
General Post Office, March 24, 1766
NEWS –6602
Tunbridge Wells, Brighthelmstone, Bromley & Sevenoaks. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, June 24, 1766
NEWS –6603
Winchester, Southampton & the Isle of Wight. Three additional posts
General Post-Office, December 26, 1766
NEWS –6604
Tunbridge Wells, Brighthelmstone, Bromley & Sevenoaks. Summer schedule
General Post-Office, June 24, 1767
NEWS –6701
Isle of Man. Rates. Various other P.O. regulations. (7 Geo 3, c50)
General Post-Office, July, 1767
NEWS –6702
Mail robbery. Fraudulent practices by Thomas Walsh, a Letter Carrier in Dublin
General Post-Office, August 17, 1767
NEWS –6703
Members of Parliament. Free franking
General-Post-Office, March 5, 1768
NEWS –6801
Members of Parliament. Letters and packets to pass free starting March 31st
General Post-Office, March 28, 1768
NEWS –6802
Ireland. Improvement of correspondence for the mail to Ireland
General Post-Office, June 25, 1768
NEWS –6803
List of towns where a daily post has been established (1768)
0001 General-Post-Office, September 6, 1768
–6804
United States, Barbados & Leeward Islands. Schedule
General Post-Office, September 6, 1768
NEWS –6805
Improvement of the post. Letter carriers to have a ticket on their chest and a printed schedule. Bellmen
General Post-Office, December 17, 1768
NEWS –6806
Mail robbery. Post boy robbed of the North mail between Stamford and Coltersworth
General Post Office, March 21, 1769
NEWS –6901
Lost mail bags. Bags were lost or stolen near Maidenhead
General Post-Office, May 16, 1769
NEWS –6902
Isle of Man. Change in schedule of the mail packets between Whitehaven and the Isle of Man
General Post-Office, June 20, 1769
NEWS –6903
Stolen bill of exchange. Description of the suspect
General Post-Office, November 24, 1769
NEWS –6904