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Inland Post Warrants 1892-1902

These Warrants mark the transition from "Treasury Warrants" to the more general description of Statutory Rules and Orders. They are generally in the form of scanned digitised copies (with OCR'd text) extracted from volumes of these. Any available as transcripts will be noted. The naming system for amendment warrants did not settle into the standard format (in which they were sequentially numbered regardless of year) until after the 1897 Warrant.

The text in the "Description" column is intended as a general summary of what the Warrant is about, in the manner of the "explanatory notes" officially added to later Warrants.

Date Warrant Description
1892
(1 Jun)

Inland Post Warrant 1892 (scan)

This Warrant laid down the general rates and regulations that applied to the Inland Post.

1892
(8 Oct)

Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1892 (scan)

Full fees need not be paid on each not fully paid part-express packet delivered by the same special messenger at the same address, as long as the full fee is paid on one packet and 1d on each of the others.

Redirection now includes reposting, and for letters must (not "shall") be done on the day of delivery or the day following, otherwise a charge equal to the original postage made.

1892
(1 Dec)

Inland Post Further Amendment Warrant 1892 (scan)

Extended scale of insurance for registered packets.

1893
(1 Jun)

Inland Post Warrant 1892 Amendment Warrant (No. 3) (scan)

Book packets now include circulars in imitation typewriting, reproduced by mimeograph or other mechanical process, provided that such circulars are posted at a prescribed post office in batches of at least 20 precisely identical copies.

1893
(24 Jul)

Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1893 (scan)

Extra weight fee for express packets over 1lb.

Multiple packets fee of 2d after the first for express packets to different addresses delivered by same special messenger at request of addressee, limit of 15lb.

Express packets may be delivered by special messenger at the request of the addressee, full express fee to be charged on one express packet, and 1d per 10 packets or part for the rest.

1893
(1 Aug)

Inland Post Warrant 1892 Amendment Warrant (No. 4) (scan)

Addition of fictitious postage stamps and reused stamps to list of prohibitions.

1894
(1 Sep)

Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1894 (scan)

Introduction of private postcards stamped with adhesives, and the rules and regulations that applied to them.

1895
(1 Jan)

Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1894 No. 2 (scan)

Redirection now free for all postal packets other than parcels, if done on the day of delivery or the day following (Bank Holidays excluded), otherwise a charge equal to the original postage made.

Charge for return of undeliverable newspapers and items charged ½d postage.

Paper money not to be sent in an open packet.

1895
(8 May)

Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1895 No. 1 (scan)

Revision of express fees by special conveyance.

1895
(1 Aug)

Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1895 No. 2 (scan)

Compensation up to £2 payable for loss or damage of an express packet carried by special messenger throughout its course in the post.

1897
(1 Feb)

Inland Post Amendment Warrant 1897 (transcript)

Embarrassing packets, postcards, routing, newspapers, book packets, and compulsory registration.

1897
(22 Jun)

Inland Post Warrant 1897 (scan)

This Warrant laid down the general rates and regulations that applied to the Inland Post.

1898
(1 May)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 1) Warrant 1898 (scan)

Extended scale of insurance for registered packets.

1898
(1 Dec)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 2) Warrant 1898 (scan)

Confirmation of reduction in weight fees and multiple packet fees for express packets carried by special messenger throughout their course in the post.

Note: this reduction had already been implemented on 4th October (presumably under the general authority of the Postmaster General to remit fees), so this merely brought the Warrants in line.

1899
(6 Sep)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 3) Warrant 1899 (scan)

Articles not transmissible as book packets if substantially in the nature of stationery or merchandise.

1901
(1 Jan)

Inland Post Warrant 1900 (scan)

This Warrant laid down the general rates and regulations that applied to the Inland Post.

1901
(1 Jun)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 1) Warrant 1901 (scan)

Compulsory registration of packets containing coin, jewellery, or watches not required for an express packet conveyed by special messenger throughout its whole course in the post.