Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood: Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c.Anonymous
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Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood: Being a Concise Description of the Chief Places of Interest in the Metropolis, and the Best Modes of Obtaining Access to Them: with Information Relating to Railways, Omnibuses, Steamers, &c.
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THE LONDON PARCELS DELIVERY COMPANY.
This Company—whose chief office is in Roll’s Buildings, Fetter Lane,
Fleet Street, and whose minor receiving houses, at shops, &c., are very
numerous—delivers parcels at a tariff of 4d. if under 4 lbs. weight, and
within three miles distance; under 14 lbs. within a like range, 6d.; and
so on up to a cwt., which will be delivered for 1s. 2d., subject to the
aforesaid condition. Over three miles distance, the charge for
delivering a parcel under 1 lb. to any part of London and its environs
will be 4d., under 7 lbs., 6d., and so forth. For a parcel under 112
lbs., if carried beyond three miles, sender will be charged 1s. 6d. To
more distant places, minimum charge is 6d. Light but bulky packages
charged for by measurement. The Company does not undertake to _collect_
parcels from the houses of the senders.
MONEY-ORDER OFFICES, AND POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.
The _London Postal District_, to which special rules relate, includes
every town and village within twelve miles of the General Post-office.
Reference has already been made to the number of post-offices,
receiving-houses, and pillar-boxes, in this area. There are 500
_Money-order Offices_, the whole of which (with a very few exceptions)
have within a recent period been made _Post-office Savings-banks_ also.
The facilities thus afforded to strangers visiting London for a few days,
for receiving or transmitting money, are very great. A Post-office
Money-order will convey sums of a few pounds without risk of loss, at a
cost of a few pence, either from the visitor to his country friends, or
from them to him. The Post-office Savings-banks are even still more
convenient; for a person residing in the country, and having money in the
savings-banks, _can draw it out in London_ during his visit, or any part
of it, with a delay of a day or two, free of expense. In whatever part
of London a visitor may be, he is within five or ten minutes’ walk of a
Money-order Office; and at any such office he can, for six hours a day,
(10 till 4,) obtain the requisite information concerning both of these
kinds of economical monetary facilities.
LONDON LETTERS, POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.
As just stated, the _London District Post_ operates within twelve miles
of the General Post-office: that is, within a circle of twenty-four miles
in diameter. There are a few outlying patches beyond this circle, but
they need not here be taken into account. This large area is now divided
into eight _Postal Districts_, each of which has a name, an initial
abbreviation, and a chief office. They are as follows:—
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