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Inland Post Warrants 1903-22

These Warrants were in the form 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 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
1904
(1 Jan)

Inland Post Warrant 1903 (scan)

The Warrant consolidates the regulations relating to the inland post.

1905
(1 Jan)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 1) Warrant 1904 (scan)

Revised rules for payment of postage to allow cut-outs from postal stationery.

1905
(1 Jul)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 2) Warrant 1905 (scan)

Extended the list of official notices that could be sent for the printed papers rate.

1906
(1 Jan)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 3) Warrant 1905 (scan)

Revised compensation fee schedule for registered letters.

1906
(2 Jul)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 4) Warrant 1906 (scan)

Revised scale of rates for parcels.

1906
(1 Sep)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 5) Warrant 1906 (scan)

Introduction of special rates for literature for the blind.

1906
(1 Oct)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 6) Warrant 1906 (scan)

Introduction of extra weight fee for express packets over 1lb.

1906
(1 Oct)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 7) Warrant 1906 (transcript)

Revision of list of items that could be sent at the printed papers rate.

1906
(1 Nov)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 8) Warrant 1906 (scan)

Modification of rules for postcards – increased minimum size, and attached thin engravings, photographs, and sender's address label now allowed.

1907
(1 Feb)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 9) Warrant 1907 (scan)

Revised scale of rates for literature for the blind.

1908
(11 May)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 10) Warrant 1908 (scan)

Revised rules for the posting of literature for the blind.

1910
(17 Aug)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 11) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Removal of "watches" from the list of items that required compulsory registration of a packet.

1910
(25 Oct)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 12) Warrant 1910 (scan)

Extension of the allowable attachments to a postcard to include drawings and (general) thin printed matter.

1911
(25 Aug)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 13) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Reduction in charge for a certificate of posting for unregistered non-parcels from 1d to ½d.

Note: a clause was included in the 1903 Warrant to allow for certificates of posting for ordinary letters, although such certificates were not actually offered at the time. This amending Warrant reduced the charge that would be asked in readiness for their introduction on 2nd October 1911.

1911
(1 Dec)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 14) Warrant 1911 (scan)

Extended the list of packets subject to compulsory registration to those where "the envelope or cover thereof bears any word, phrase, name, label, design, mark or other indication implying ... that such postal packet contains any article having an intrinsic or marketable value".

1915
(1 Jan)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 15) Warrant 1914 (scan)

Revised scale of rates for literature for the blind.

1915
(1 Nov)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 16) Warrant 1915 (scan)

Revision of inland postal rates for letters, printed papers, samples, newspapers and parcels.

1918
(3 Jun)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 17) Warrant 1918 (scan)

Revision of inland postal rates for letters, printed papers, and parcels, and modification of the rules for what was acceptable as printed papers.

1918
(2 Dec)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 18) Warrant 1918 (scan)

2d fee for parcels from the Channel Islands upon which customs duty was to be paid.

1919
(1 Jun)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 19) Warrant 1919 (scan)

Increase in express mileage fee from 3d to 6d.

1920
(1 Jun)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 20) Warrant 1920 (scan)

Revision of inland postal rates for letters and parcels.

1920
(1 Jun)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 21) Warrant 1920 (scan)

Revision of inland postal rates for printed papers.

1920
(1 Sep)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 22) Warrant 1920 (scan)

Revision of inland postal rates for newspapers.

1921
(13 Jun)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 23) Warrant 1921 (scan)

Revision of inland postal rates for postcards, printed papers, and literature for the blind, increase in registration fee, provision for a general fee for Sunday delivery of express packets.

1922
(29 May)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 24) Warrant 1922 (scan)

Revision of inland postal rates for letters, postcards, and printed papers, and increased handling fee for packets on which customs duty was to be paid.

1922
(1 Aug)

Inland Post Amendment (No. 25) Warrant 1922 (scan)

Revised rules for payment of postage to allow for the use of franking machines.