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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 ...
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 ...
International Distribution Services plc (formerly Royal Mail Limited, Royal Mail plc and International Distributions Services plc) is a British company providing postal and courier services. The UK government initially retained a 30% stake in the company, [ 4 ] but sold its remaining shares in 2015. [ 5 ]
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 ...
Between 2000 and 2014, around 900 postal workers were wrongly convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting, with some going to prison and others forced into bankruptcy. In total, more than 2,000 ...
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.
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 ...