Forwarding Agents of London (GB)
LONDON, Great Britain
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Forwarding agents worked in conjunction with the Post Offices. A forwarding agent was a person, agency, or business involved in the collection, shipment, and delivery of letters to a designated place.
Many postal services would terminate their routes at frontiers, area's of war or conflict or seaports. Individual firms of exporters, shipping companies etc would set up as forwarding agents in order to supply onward transmission of letters. One of the earliest was Lamfranchi of Antwerp who is known forwarding from 1579 between Venice and London, Donere of Paris and Calai is also an early forwarding agent.
THE LIST IS ARRANGED BY THE FIRST SURNAME IN THE CASE OF A DOUBLE NAMED COMPANY, FOR INSTANCE H. S. Aguirreso, Larte y Murrieta IS FOUND UNDER 'A'
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