From Anthony Todd: Proposed Post Office Notice (unpublished)
General Post-Office November 18th, 1783.

A Sufficient Number of Packet Boats of about 200 Tons and 30 Hands, are established between Falmouth and New-York to support a monthly Correspondence, and the Mails will continue to be dispatched as at present from London and from New-York upon the first Wednesday in every Month.

All Persons are however to take Notice, that instead of it’s being any longer left to the Option of the Writer to pay or not the Postage before-hand, there is now a necessity for the Postage on all Letters from any Part of Great-Britain or Ireland for North America to be paid up to London, without which they must be opened and returned to the Writers, but the Packet Postage of one Shilling for a single Letter and so in Proportion between London and New-York, may or not be paid at each Place before-hand.

And all Persons upon the Continent of Europe and of North America corresponding with each other by these Packet Boats are to take particular Notice, that they are to put their Letters under Cover to their Friends in London.

Likewise, all Persons in Great-Britain or Ireland desirous of sending any Letters for the United States of America by the French Packet Boats, are to cause them to be put under Cover to some Correspondent at Paris.

By Command of the Post-General,
Anthony Todd, Secy.
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