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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.
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 ...
Bates & Others v Post Office Ltd was a UK group legal action taken by 555 subpostmasters against Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, the state-owned post office company. It was heard by Justice Fraser in the High Court between 2017 and 2019.
The Postal Services Commission, known as Postcomm, was a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom charged with overseeing the quality and universal service of post in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2000 under the Postal Services Act 2000. Postcomm was merged into the communications regulator Ofcom on 1 ...
John Palmer (postal innovator) Parcelforce; Phosphor banded stamp; Port Lockroy; Post Office (Banking Services) Act 1976; Post Office circular; Post Office Limited; Post Office Money; Post Office Packet Service; Postage stamps and postal history of the United Kingdom; Postal orders of the United Kingdom; Postal Services Act 2000; Postal ...
DHL Parcel UK Limited Company type Postal services Headquarters Slough, England, UK Area served United Kingdom Products Postal services Parent Deutsche Post DHL Group Website www.ukmail.com UK Mail, a trading name of DHL Parcel UK Limited (formerly Business Post), is a postal service company operating in the United Kingdom, which has competed with Royal Mail in collection and distribution of ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, the Post Office began to erect its own buildings on the site (designed for the most part by Sir Henry Tanner, principal architect of the Office of Works): a Telegraph Factory was built in 1890-92 in the southern corner of the site; and from 1889-1900 a vast new Parcel Office was built, in stages from north to south, over the whole of ...