The Post Office did not provice a parcels service until 1883. Before then parcels went by Coach or, once they were established, by the Railway.
A normal practice was to send a letter by the post to warn the recipient of the parcel, and to make sure that someone collected it, as in the letter below from January 1792.
Parcels sometimes got lost, as shown in the letter below which is in the same correspondence as the one above..
The letter below from 1799 gives thanks for the "flitch of fine country bacon".
... whilst this next letter says that a Basket of Game woule be very acceptable, giving directions of where to send it and asking for a letter to be sent whenever a Basket is sent.
Below is an example of a letter from 1821 warning the recipient of a small Basket containing a Cock Pheasant & Brace of Partridges.
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