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  2. General Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The Post Office Savings Bank was introduced in 1861, when there were few banks outside major towns. By 1863, 2,500 post offices were offering a savings service. Gradually more financial services were offered by post offices, including government stocks and bonds in 1880, insurance and annuities in 1888, and war savings certificates in 1916.

  3. United States Postal Savings System - Wikipedia

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    A certificate of a $5 deposit in the United States Postal Savings System issued on September 10, 1932. The United States Postal Savings System was a postal savings system signed into law by President William Howard Taft and operated by the United States Post Office Department, predecessor of the United States Postal Service, from January 1, 1911, until July 1, 1967.

  4. Blythe House - Wikipedia

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    Blythe House is a listed building located at 23 Blythe Road, West Kensington, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, UK. Originally built as the headquarters of the Post Office Savings Bank, it is now used as a store and archive by the Victoria and Albert, Science and British Museums. In the 2015 Autumn Statement the Government announced it ...

  5. Girobank - Wikipedia

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    Products. Postal giro, retail banking. National Girobank was a British public sector financial institution run by the General Post Office that opened for business in October 1968. [1] It was initially called National Giro [2] [3] then National Girobank and finally Girobank plc, before being absorbed into Alliance & Leicester in 2003.

  6. Austrian Postal Savings Bank - Wikipedia

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    The Austrian Postal Savings Bank building ( German language: Österreichische Postsparkasse) is a famous building in Vienna, designed and built by the architect Otto Wagner. The building is regarded as an important work of Vienna Secession, branch of Art Nouveau . It was constructed between 1904 and 1906 using then completely new reinforced ...

  7. Post Office Act - Wikipedia

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    The Post Office Savings Bank Acts 1861 to 1893 is the collective title of the following acts: The Post Office Savings Bank Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 14) And the enactments applied by that act which are for the time being in force; The Post Office Savings Bank Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 14) The Post Office Savings Bank Act 1874 (37 & 38 Vict. c ...

  8. Hungarian Postal Savings Bank - Wikipedia

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    The Hungarian Postal Savings Bank ( Hungarian: Magyar Postatakarékpénztár) was a major savings institution in Hungary, established in 1886 as the Hungarian Royal Postal Savings Bank ( Hungarian: Magyar Királyi Postatakarékpénztár) and terminated in 1948. It is well remembered for its head office in District V of Budapest, a striking Art ...

  9. Post office - Wikipedia

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    Post office. A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional services, which vary by country.