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I'm sure "send all good" isn't an old-fashioned commercial locution: that's got to be a typo for goods.
These phrases (another is "accounts receivable") have an air of law-French about them, with the postposed adjective. In "goods inward" the second word is probably an adverb contracted from a longer phrase, but nowadays we'd transform it to an adjective and say "inward goods" when we contracted it.
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