An Act to consolidate Enactments relating to the Post Office.
Citation
8 Edw. 7. c. 48
Territorial extent
United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent
21 December 1908
Commencement
1 May 1909
Other legislation
Repeals/revokes
Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710
Post Office (Repeal of Laws) Act 1837
Post Office Management Act 1837
Post Office (Offences) Act 1837
Post Office (Duties) Act 1840
Post Office (Duties) Act 1844
Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1848
Colonial Inland Post Office Act 1849
Post Office (Duties) Act 1860
Post Office Lands Act 1863
Post Office Act 1870
Post Office Act 1875
Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1880
Post Office (Newspaper) Act 1881
Post Office (Land) Act 1881
Post Office (Reply Post Cards) Act 1882
Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1883
Post Office Act 1892
Post Office Amendment Act 1895
Post Office (Guarantee) Act 1898
Post Office Guarantee (No. 2) Act 1898
Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1903
Post Office Act 1904
Post Office (Money Orders) Act 1906
Post Office (Literature for the Blind) Act 1906
Text of statute as originally enacted
The Post Office Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 48) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
This was an extensive act covering many aspect of the mail system and some of the main provisions were: reaffirmation of the General Post Office monopoly for the carrying of mail and it gave the power to fix the postage rates to The Treasury with a minimum rate of at least one penny for an inland letter, a half-penny for a postcard, a book packet should not cost more than one halfpenny for every two ounces in weight in addition to other rates. Special rates were to be implemented for postal packets of books and papers impressed for blind people. Unpaid or deficient postage was to be charged at double the deficiency by the addressee and when rejected by the addressee, was to be returned to the sender who should pay the deficiency.[1]
The Treasury was allowed to make regulation concerning mail with foreign countries.
Petitions and addresses to His Majesty or to Parliament, and on votes and parliamentary proceedings were allowed to be sent free though members of parliament could not receive items weighing more than thirty-two ounces postage free.[1]
Postal censorship was permitted under provisions of the act when warrants are issued by a secretary of state in both Great Britain and in the Channel Islands.[2]
Some of the lesser provisions were:
To provide postal services (including cash on delivery services) and telecommunication services
To provide a banking service of the kind commonly known as a giro system and such other services by means of which money may be remitted (whether by means of money orders, postal orders or otherwise) as it thinks fit
To provide data processing services
To perform services for Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Government in Northern Ireland or the government of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom or for local or national health service authorities in the United Kingdom.
^ abCite error: The named reference the act was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department, predecessors and successor: Papers". The National Archives. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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