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Post Office Limited. Welsh: Swyddfa'r Post Cyf. Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, 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 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 ...
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 ...
The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km 2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early ...
The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO was a state monopoly covering the dispatch of items from a specific sender to a specific receiver (which was to be of great importance when new forms of communication were invented); it was overseen by a Government ...
The 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 but changed it afterwards.
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.
3,698. Postcodes (total) 12,546. Statistics as at May 2020 [1] The EC (Eastern Central) postcode area, also known as the London EC postal area, [2] is a group of postcode districts in central London, England. It includes almost all of the City of London and parts of the London boroughs of Islington, Camden, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Westminster.