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Parcelforce, separated as a new division within Royal Mail in 1986; Green Paper on Postal Reform (1994) published, options for further privatisation and regulation of the Post Office and Royal Mail; British Forces Post Office, the British Armed Forces’ postal & courier service, a history of its development
A national telephone service was opened by the Post Office in 1912. In 1919, the first international airmail service was developed by Royal Engineers (Postal Section) and Royal Air Force. The London Post Office Railway was opened in 1927. [31] In 1941, an airgraph service was introduced between UK and Egypt. The service was later extended to ...
Royal Mail could be allowed to cut its letter deliveries to five days a week, or even three, under a series of options announced by Ofcom. Royal Mail: Key findings from Ofcom’s review into the ...
An entire museum in London is dedicated to celebrating the 500-year-long history of British postal services. Yet that history is becoming an increasingly sorry tale. Royal Mail, the official ...
The Parcel Post service of Royal Mail was started in 1883, [6] though parcel services operated by the railway companies, later Red Star Parcels and British Road Services, were also heavily used for many decades. Royal Mail was split into three divisions in 1986 [6] and in August 1990, Royal Mail Parcels was rebranded as Parcelforce.
Lawmakers trying to get to the bottom of one of Britain’s gravest injustices were questioning bosses of the Post Office and Fujitsu on Tuesday as momentum grew to compensate and clear the names ...
The 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike was a strike in the United Kingdom in August and September 1988. It was the country's first national postal strike for 17 years, [ 1 ] and began after postal workers at Royal Mail walked out in protest over bonuses being paid to recruit new workers in London and the South East .
Post Office Limited, formerly Post Office Counters Limited and commonly known as the Post Office, is a state-owned retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and identity verification services to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 ...