Claim: Thomas Witherings(died 28 September 1651) proposed to Charles's Council to "settle a pacquet post between London and he public institution of the Post Office was created.
Evidence: Thomas Witherings (died 28 September 1651) was an English merchant and postal administrator who established the Royal Mail public letter service. In 1635 Witherings proposed to Charles's Council to "settle a pacquet post between London and all parts of His Majesty's dominions, for the carrying and recarrying of his subjects letters" To justify the expenditure Witherings included an argument that "anie fight at sea, anie distress of His Majestie's ships (which God forbid), anie wrong offered by anie nation to anie of ye coastes of England or anie of His Majestie's forts…the newes will come sooner than thought. In 1635 a state letter monopoly formally came into being and the public institution of the Post Office was created.