The Post Office Packet Service dates to Tudor times and ran until 1823, when the Admiralty assumed control of the service. Originally, the Post Office used...

or packet ships" as their original function was to carry mail. A "packet ship" was originally a vessel employed to carry post office mail packets to and...

The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive...

p.180. Robinson (1964), p.71. Anonymous (1895) History of the post-office packet service between the years 1793-1815. (Macmillan and Co.). Campbell, John...

Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1823 that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1838....

Liverpool and Africa. In 1813 she became a temporary packet sailing for the Post Office Packet Service from Falmouth, Cornwall. In 1813 the French Navy captured...

Hanover was a two-masted brigantine packet ship owned and operated by the Falmouth Post Office Packet Service, which operated between 1688 and 1852. On...

Prince Regent was launched at Falmouth, Cornwall in 1821 as a Post Office Packet Service packet. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1826 and renamed her HMS...

The International Packet Switched Service (IPSS) was the first international and commercial packet switching network. It was created in 1978 by a collaboration...

rivers, supplying forts and trading posts. Packet craft were used extensively in European coastal mail services since the 17th century, and gradually...

Post Office Limited, formerly Post Office Counters Limited and commonly known as the Post Office, is a state-owned retail post office company in the United...

1942−43 Falkland Islands, 1982 Antelope (1780 packet ship) was a 6-gun West Indian Post Office Packet Service packet ship that was captured in 1781, 1782, and...

Jutland, 1916 Princess Royal (ship) HMS Princess Post Office Packet Service for an account of the packet Princess Royal's successful resistance against...

Liverpool and Africa. In 1813, she became a temporary packet sailing for the Post Office Packet Service from Falmouth, Cornwall. In 1813, the French Navy...

completed as a yacht for the governor of Malta. Later she became a Post Office packet service brig for Royal Navy. She sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia for...

in prize circa 1808. From 1809 she sailed as a packet for the Post Office Packet Service out of Falmouth, Cornwall. In 1812 an American privateer captured...

Princess Amelia was launched in 1799 and became a packet for the British Post Office Packet Service, sailing from Falmouth, Cornwall. She sailed to North...

Adolphus was launched in 1795 at Falmouth, Cornwall as a packet sailing for the Post Office Packet Service. She was involved in two notable incidents. In 1798...

U.S. Special Delivery was a postal service paid for with additional postage for urgent letters and postal packets which are delivered in less time than...

The Channel Islands Post Offices were established in 1794. Thereafter cutters under contract to the Post Office Packet Service sailed weekly, and later...

Charlotte was built in Emsworth in 1801. She was a regular packet ship for the Post Office Packet Service, sailing out of Falmouth. She made several voyages across...

of the Baltimore schooner Rossie, in which he captured the Post Office Packet Service packet ship Princess Amelia, Barney entered the US Navy as a captain...

brig-sloop launched in 1825 at Pembroke. In 1827 she became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1855 for...

1810 and 1813 she became a temporary packet operating out of Falmouth, Cornwall for the Post Office Packet Service. American privateers twice captured...

around 1 June. On 23 May Young Teazer captured the Falmouth Post Office Packet Service packet Ann. Young Teazer left Portland on 3 June 1813 with 73 men...

prize and from 1808 sailed from Falmouth, Cornwall, as a packet for the Post Office Packet Service. She sailed primarily to the Iberian peninsula, but also...

until January 1813. On 11 December 1812 she captured the Post Office Packet Service packet Nocton as Nocton was returning to England from Rio de Janeiro...

Townshend Packet (Townsend Packet) was launched at Falmouth in 1800 as a packet for the Post Office Packet Service. She made numerous voyages between Falmouth...

Manchester packet or Manchester Packet: Manchester (1805 ship) was originally built at Falmouth and served the Post Office Packet Service. Hence, she...

Cherokee-class brig-sloop launched in 1815 that became a Post Office Packet Service packet, sailing out of Falmouth, Cornwall. She was sold in 1835....