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Allen & Morton Allen & Morton's West-London Directory for 1867

Scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, and such like, as samples, may be sent, provided they be packed in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mail bags and the officers of the Post Office, while at the same time they may be easily examined. Any packet containing such articles as these, which is found not sufficiently guarded will be stopped, and notice given thereof, but it will be charged with a fine equal to the postage to which it was liable as a packet of patterns.
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Allen & Morton Allen & Morton's West-London Directory for 1867

For proper despatch of Foreign and Colonial Letters it is necessary to observe, that if the 2nd and 17th of the month fall on a Sunday, the West India Mail is despatched the next morning.
If the 14th and 28th fall on a Sunday, the Mails for the West Indies, via Liverpool are made up on the previous evening.
If the 20th fall on a Sunday, the Australian Mail, via Southampton, and the Cape of Good Hope and Natal Mails, via Southampton and Mauritius, are despatched on the following evening.
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