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Postmaster General, position created in 1510. Royal Mail, established 1516 by King Henry VIII. General Post Office, established 1660 by King Charles II. Rowland Hill, creator of the penny post, 1840. Post Office Limited, separated from Royal Mail as a new business in 1986. Parcelforce, separated as a new division within Royal Mail in 1986.
Royal Mail Group Limited. Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distributions Services. It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). The company used the name Consignia for a brief period in the early 2000s.
Post Office Limited. Welsh: Swyddfa'r Post Cyf. Post Office Limited is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 post office branches.
The term "post-office" has been in use since the 1650s, shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. In early modern England, post riders—mounted couriers—were placed, or "posted", every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or "post towns".
The General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East) was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910, the headquarters of the General Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and England's first purpose-built post office. Originally known as the General Letter Office, [1] the headquarters ...
January 9, 2024 at 9:34 AM. LONDON (AP) — The former head of Britain’s state-owned Post Office said Tuesday she will hand back a royal honor in response to mounting fury over a miscarriage of ...
Police probe UK Post Office for accusing over 700 employees of theft. The culprit was an IT glitch. JILL LAWLESS. January 6, 2024 at 8:04 AM.
Coordinates: 51°31′29″N 0°06′43″W. Mount Pleasant Post Office (2023). The Mount Pleasant Mail Centre (often shortened as Mount Pleasant, known internally as the Mount [1] and officially known as the London Central Mail Centre) [2] is a mail centre operated by Royal Mail in London, England. The site has previously operated as one of ...