This article examines the decline in the public posting of laws which occurred largely under the Convention. This decline followed upon a period in which the posting of laws was particularly intense during the opening years of the Revolution – a practice that had caused some material and practical difficulties. The delay in the delivery of posters was interpreted, especially from 1793 onwards, as an obstruction posed by the departmental administrations to the publication of the laws – a reflection that justified a reform of publication procedures aiming to dispense with the poster as a way of avoiding the departmental relay. However, the posting of the laws did not disappear entirely : the deputies used the official newspaper-posters of the Convention, the Bulletin of the National Convention, to publish a certain number of decrees. Yet this reorientation of the Bulletin towards the publication of laws is consistent with the suppression of the departmental relay.