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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 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.
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 ...
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.
The New General Post Office, London, 1829, by James Pollard, showing the main west façade on St Martin's Le Grand. Smirke's new General Post Office opened on 23 September 1829. It was the UK's second purpose-built post office; Dublin's GPO (completed in 1818 to a design by Francis Johnston and still in use) predates it.
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 (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 ...
Main Office - A Victorian building which sits in Main Street. P.O. Boxes Unit - Irish Town; Mail Operations Centre and Parcel Post - Unit E, Admiral Rooke Road; The North District Post Office in Glacis Road and the South District Post Office in Scud Hill were closed in late 2014 for refurbishment, but in February 2016 had still not reopened.