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The General Post Office (GPO) [1] was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. [2] 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 ...
Getting the Message: The Story of the British Post Office. Alan Sutton. ISBN 0-7509-0351-1. Campbell-Smith, Duncan (2011). Masters of the Post: The Authorized History of the Royal Mail. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-95766-0. Tombs, R. C. (1899). The Bristol Royal Mail. Post, Telegraph, and Telephone. Arrowsmith, Bristol.
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 ...
Postal History Map of Britain: an illustrated map in full colour with a border of postage stamps. Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son, 1970? Dendy Marshall, C. F. The British Post Office from its beginnings to the end of 1925. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926, 354p. Robinson, Howard. The British Post Office: A History ...
The quality of postal services in the 17th and 18th centuries improved with development of better roads and means of transport. [1]Anthony Trollope is credited with major contributions to the development of postal services in the years 1851-1867, described, e.g. in Chapters 8 and 13 of his autobiography.
The History of the British Post Office. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. pp. 261. Hendy, John G. (1905). The history of the early postmarks of the British Isles from their Introduction down to 1840. London: L. Upcott Gill. pp. 204. Joyce, Herbert (1893). The History of the Post Office from its establishment down to 1836. London: Richard ...
1913 - United States initiates parcel post service, using special stamps. 1915 - 15 August - British forces overprint Iranian stamps in Bushire, use until 16 October. 1915 - British and French occupation forces overprint stamps for Cameroon. 1916 - United States postal inspectors solve the last known stagecoach robbery in the US.
Bangkok (British Post Office) 1882–1885; Batum (British Occupation) 1919–1920; Beirut (British Post Office) 1906 only; British post offices in the Turkish Empire 1885–1923; British postal agencies in Eastern Arabia 1948–1966; Bushire (British Occupation) 1915 only; Cameroons (British Occupation) 1915 only; China (British Post Offices ...