London Penny Post
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The London Penny Post was a premier postal system whose function was to deliver mail within London and its immediate suburbs for the modest sum of one penny. The Penny Post was established in 1680 by
figure 1 Newspaper ad for Penny Post announcing service and postal rates and the advantages to trade and commerce which it offered.
Dockwra plaque in Lime Street, London
figure 2 Lime St. Postmark & heart-shaped Time-stamps
figure 3 Postmark used in 1681
Postmark
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A postmark is a postal marking made on an envelope, parcel, postcard or the like, indicating the place, date and time that the item was delivered into the care of a postal service, or sometimes indica
London Penny Post
…in 1663. Murray was a member of the Clothworkers' Company, and a clerk in the excise office. The London Penny Post was the first postal system to use hand-stamps to postmark the mail to indicate the place and time of the mailing and that its postage had been prepaid; the earliest known Penny Post postmark is…
Postmark used on U.S. Navy ship
Austrian stamp and postmark
An early example of a Bishop mark.
One of several types of postmarks found on Pony Express mail