Britain, Parliamentary Papers on the Post Office

Sessions 1877 and later, selected items

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Introductory Notes


Debates

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Bills and Acts

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1877 (212) V.53, Money Orders
1880 (62) V.651, Money Orders
1880 (172) V.659, Money Orders
1880 (172a) V.667, Money Orders, Draft Regulations
1880 (309) V.673, Post Office Savings Banks
1880 (90) VI.313, London, SW District Post Office
1880 (227) VI.321, London, SW District Post Office
1880 (262) VI.333, London, SW District Post Office
1881 (154) IV.219, Transmission of Newspapers
1881 (150) IV.621, Post Office, land acquisition
1882 (254) V.1, Conveyance of Parcels
1882 (74) V.505, Reply Post Cards
1883 (263) VIII.619, Money Orders
1883 (266) VIII.629, Post Office, Offences
1883 (298) VIII.641, Post Office, Offences
1884 (161) VI.211, Post Office, Offences
1884 (297) VI.225, Post Office, Offences
1884-85 (72) IV.621, Post Offices, land acquisition
1884-85 (193) IV.627, Post Offices, land acquisition
1886 (168) II.317, Money Payments, free of postage
1886 (148) V.91, Post Office, Birmingham
1886 (229) V.99, Post Office, Birmingham
1887 (86) II.361, Money Payments, free of postage
1887 (344) V.357, Post Office Savings Banks
1888 (51) III.125, Money Payments, free of postage
1889 (244) VI.463, Post Office, land transfers
1889 (377) VI.477, Post Office, land transfers
1890-91 (366) VII.667, Service of Post Office
1890-91 (405) VII.675, Service of Post Office
1892 (378) V.519, Post Office Act, 1891, amendments
1893-94 (263) II.93, Conveyance of Mails
1893-94 (156) VII.67, Post Office, land transfers
1893-94 (256) VII.75, Post Office, land transfers
1895 (191) VI.31, Post Office Act, 1891, amendments
1896 (150) III.243, Money Payments, free of postage
1896 (284) VI.163, Post Office Act
1897 (211) VI.193, Post Office Act
1897 (251) VI.241, Post Office, land transfers
1897 (328) VI.267, Post Office, land transfers
1900 (228) IV.175, Post Office, land transfers
1900 (274) IV.183, Post Office, land transfers

Bill, intituled, Act to amend Telegraph and Post Office Acts in relation to Channel Islands.
Telegraph (channel islands). [H.L.] A bill intituled an act to amend the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1897, and the Post Office Acts in relation to the Channel Islands.
1899 (123) VII.243, 8 p.


Reports and Papers

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Committee of Inquiry into Money-Order System of Post Office, proposed Scheme of Post Office Notes and Postal Drafts payable to Order. Report, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, Index.
Post Office (money order system). Return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 25 June 1877;--for, report of the Committee of Inquiry into the money order system of the Post Office, into the proposed scheme of Post Office notes, and as to postal drafts payable to order; together with minutes of evidence, appendix, and index.
1877 (289) XXVII.261, 98 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
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1877 (264) XLIX.333, Compulsory prepayment to Australian Colonies

1877 (184) XLIX.337, Post Office Savings Banks (annual reports, continuing)

1877 (284) LXVIII.519, Indecent or Obscene Publications

1878 (92) XLVI.255, Conveyance of Mails to US, 1868-77

1878-79 (285) XLII.699, Post Office Savings Banks

1878-79 (30) XLII,
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1878-79 (103) XLII,
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1880 (80) XL.329, Life Insurance though the Post Office

1880 (90) XL.401, Post Office Money Orders, draft regulations

1880 (345) XL.417, Post Office Savings Banks

1881 (410)

1882 (138) XII.383, Post Office, annuities

1883 (133) XXXVIII.413

1883 (287) XLIII.793, Parcel Post

1884-85 (208) X.543, Post Office Sites

Correspondence between Postmaster General and Steam-Ship Companies, in reference to Conveyance of Mails to New York.
Post Office (conveyance of mails to New York): copy of the whole correspondence between the Postmaster General and the various steam ship companies in reference to the conveyance of Her Majesty's mails to New York, together with the memorials relative thereto.
1884-85 (99) XLV.339, 54 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
Reprinted in <IUP-USA-49>, p. 651-706.

1884-85 (87) XLV.411, Acceleration of Scotch Postal Mail Service

1887 (274) XII.819, Sunday Postal Labour

1887 (34) XLIX.351, Imperial Penny Postage
1887 (122) XLIX.367, Imperial Penny Postage

Contracts, May 1887, with Cunard Steamship Company and Oceanic Steam Navigation Company for Conveyance of American Mails.
Post Office mail contract (America). Copies of two contracts, dated 3 May 1887, with the Cunard Steamship Company, Limited, and with the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, for the conveyance of the American mails, together with a copy of the minute of the Treasury with regard thereto.
1887 (165) XLIX.379, 14 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
Reprinted in <IUP-USA-49>, p. 707-720.

1887 (87) XLIX,
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1888 (277) LXV.307, Post Office Savings Banks, draft regulations

1888 (419) LXXXI.519, Contract for Stamps and Postcards, De La Rue
1888 (104) LXXXI.523, Contract for Manufacture of Stamps and Stamped Paper, 1880

1889 (323) XI.359, Post Office Sites

1889 (263) XLVII.317, Conveyance of Mails between Halifax or Quebec and Hong Kong
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Contract with British India Steam Navigation Company for Conveyance of Mails between London and E. Coast of Africa (Zanzibar).
Mail contract (London and east coast of Africa) (Zanzibar). Copy of contract with the British India Steam Navigation Company, dated 5 February 1890, for the conveyance of mails between London and east coast of Africa (Zanzibar), together with a copy of the Treasury minute relating thereto.
1890 (122) XLI.369, 16 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
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1890-91 (163) VI.573, Packet service

1890-91 (116) LXIII.117, Mail steamships between Queenstown, Southampton and New York
1892 (152) LXIII.501
1893-94 (170) LXXI.429
1894 (72) LXVIII.603
1895 (184) LXXIX.347
1896 (103) LXVIII.1
1897 (185) LXXII.345
1898 (169) LXXII.347
1899 (176) LXXVII.677
1900 (96) LXVIII.155

Correspondence on Proposal for Establishment of Parcel Post between United States of America and Great Britain and Ireland.
Parcel post (United States of America and Great Britain). Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 11th February 1892;-- for, return of copy of all correspondence on the proposal for the establishment of a parcel post between the United States of America and Great Britain and Ireland.
1892 (54) LXXIX.189, 16 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
Reprinted in <IUP-USA-49>, p. 725-740.

1893-94 (106) XIII.499, Post Office Sites

1893-94 (286) LXXIII.325, Vienna Postal Congress, 1891, Conditions for admission of Australian Colonies to the UPU

1894 (291) LXX,
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Select Committee on Telephone Service. Report, Proceedings, Evidence, Appendix, Index.
Report from the Select Committee on the telephone service; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index.
1895 (350) XIII.21, 382 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
Reprinted in <IUP-Posts-and-Telegraphs-8>

1897 (333) XIII.583, Post Office Sites

Inter-Dept. Committee on Post Office Establishments, Report, Treasury Letter, March 1897.
Post Office establishments. Copy of report of the inter-departmental committee on Post Office establishments, together with the Treasury letter thereon, dated 9 March 1897.
1897 (121) XLIV.1, 36 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
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Inter-Dept. Committee on Post Office Establishments: Minutes of Evidence, Indices, Summaries, Appendices.
Post Office establishments. Return to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 6 April 1897;--for, copy "of evidence (with indices, summaries, and appendices) taken before the committee on Post Office establishments."
1897 (163) XLIV.37, 1273 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
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1897 (39) LXXII.937, Newspaper Post

Select Committee on Telephones. Report, Proceedings, Evidence, Appendix, Index.
Report from the Select Committee on telephones; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.
1898 (383) XII.1, 699 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
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1898 (130) XXXIV.411, Mail Steamers, Scotland

1898 (230) LII.427, Post Office Sorters and Telegraphists, 1872, 1881, 1890, 1897

1900 (248) VIII.71, Post Office Sites


Command Papers

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Postmaster General: Twenty-third Report.
Twenty-third report of the Postmaster General, on the Post Office.
1877 [C.1863] XXVII.201, 60 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=PTcsAAAAYAAJ  [Harvard]

Postmaster General: Twenty-fourth Report.
Twenty-fourth report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office.
1878-79 [C.2193] XXI.133, 64 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=ASxcAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]

Postmaster General: Twenty-fifth Report.
Twenty-fifth report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office.
1878-79 [C.2405] XXI.197, 68 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
http://books.google.com/books?id=ASxcAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]

(further PMG Reports omitted from this list)

1877 [C.1666] LXXXVIII.499, Adhesion of Ceylon, etc., to the General Postal Union [UPU]

1878 [C.2050] LXXX.691, Adhesion of Canada to the General Postal Union [UPU]

1878-79 [C.2309] LXXVII.487, UPU Convention, Paris, June 1878

1880 [C.2469] LXXVIII.319, Postal Convention with France

Agreement between United Kingdom and United States of America for increasing Limits of Weight and Dimensions of Packets of Patterns of Merchandise exchanged through Post, Washington, June 1880.
Commercial. No. 38 (1880). Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America for increasing the limits of weight and the dimensions of packets of patterns of merchandise exchanged through the post between the two countries.
1880 [C.2664] LXXVIII.61, 3 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
Reprinted in <IUP-USA-49>, p. 647-650.
Similar agreements, with
1882 [C.3140] LXXXI.9, Postal Convention of 1872 with Italy, additional articles

1883 [C.3653] LXXXII.321, Postal Agreement with France

1883 [C.3481] LXXXII.329, Postal Convention of Jan. 1871 with North Germany, additional articles

1884-85 [C.4267] XXII.561, Central Post Office Buildings
1884-85 [C.4267-I] XXII.603, Central Post Office Buildings

1886 [C.4623] LXXIV.497, Postal Convention of Nov. 1877 with Egypt, additional articles

1887 [C.5040] LXVI.561, Brief Account of Formation of the Universal Postal Union
1887 [C.4922] XCI.83, Belgium, see 1876 [C.1423] LXXXII.383

1888 [C.5409] CIX.357, Postal Agreement with Italy

Additional Articles, January 1888, to Money-Order Convention between General Post Office of United Kingdom and Post Office Dept. of United States of America of December 1879.
Additional articles dated the 28th of January/15th of February 1888 to the money order convention between the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Post Office Department of the United States of America of the 2nd/18th of December 1879.
1888 [C.5362] CIX.579, 4 p.; PDF [ProQuest]
Reprinted in <IUP-USA-49>, p. 721-724.

1890 [C.6162] LXXXI.811, Postal Agreement with Romania

1890-91 [C.6257] XCVI.309, Postal Convention with France
1890-91 [C.6315] XCVI.319, Postal Convention with France

1892 [C.6724] XCV.111, UPU Convention, Vienna, July 1891

1894 [C.7507] LXX.519, Contract with De La Rue

1895 [C.7640] CIX.41, Postal Convention with France

1897 [C.8466] LXXII.947, Money Order Regulations

1898 [C.8833] CV.381, Adhesion of Orange Free State to the UPU

1898 [C.8866] CV.621, UPU Convention, Washington, June 1897

1899 [C.9180] CX.1, Postal Convention of Jan. 1871 with North Germany, additional articles

1900 [Cd.5] CV.885, Exchange of Money Orders between USA and British Honduras

Postal Money Order conventions and agreements
Parcel Post conventions and agreements
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