Notice about mail services in York
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General notice advertising mail services in York
This notice was produced as "A compleat list of coaches, diligences, flies, wagons,
vessels and posts, which come to, and go from the City of York".
This is the earliest notice we acquired referring to postal services.
Unlike the other notices we have, this was originally folded and sold at the
cost of 3d (1.5p), possibly at Tesseyman’s, the booksellers. It informs customers in York that "No Letters
can be delivered out of the [Post] Office on the Old Post Nights till all the
Mails are forwarded, which are Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays; nor on the New
Nights, till all the Letters are sorted, which is about Half an Hour after the
Mail arrives …" The majority of the information, however, concerns passenger
carriages or wagons carrying heavy loads.
Date: July 1870
Printers: W Blanchard & Co, York; folded by W Tesseyman, Bookseller
Dimensions: Height 501mm; Width 335mm
Accession Number:
2005.81/1
