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1856 G.P.O. POSTAL NOTICE REQUESTING THE PUBLIC TO PLACE THE INITIALS OF LONDON DISTRICTS AT END OF ADDRESS TO ASSIST DELIVERY. A very fine and rare rwo page postal notice from the 'GENERAL POST OFFICE' dated November 1856 entitled 'DELIVERY OF LETTERS'. The notice 'By Command of the Postmaster General, ROLAND HILL' states 'THE Postmaster General, anxious to promote rapidity and correctness in the delivery of letters, has, for postal purposes divided London and its environs into TEN DISTRICTS, each to be treated, in many respects, as a separate town; and, to render this arrangment effectual, he earnestly requests that every means may be taken by the Public for causing Letters to be directed according to the District for they are intended. Initials will suffice; and for the house at which this notice is left the initials are W.C. the District being the WESTERN CENTRAL...'. The notice then lists the ten districts and the initials to be used. A superb and rare original document. (Ref 145541).
