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The whole establishment of the post office in the 1830s consisted of one European clerk, one local writer and a peon. To cope with the increasing volume of mail, the Post Office, then known as the Singapore Post Office, later General Post Office, was moved in 1854 to its own building near the Town Hall by the side of the Singapore River.
He stayed to work in Great Britain and returned to Singapore in 1955 to become the assistant comptroller with the postal department. [4] He was the country's first local comptroller of post in 1957, and the first Asian postmaster-general in 1967. [4] He held the position until his retirement in 1971. [5]
In 1911, Govindaswamy was born in India, and in 1927, he migrated to Singapore. [3] He received no formal education. [4]In 1929, Govindaswamy joined the Postal Service Department (now known as Singapore Post) and soon become involved in the Union of Postal Workers and the Postal and Telecommunication Uniformed Staff Union.
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Using the 6-digit postal code to look up the Central Public Lirbary in the OneMap application. Due to Singapore being a small city-state and most buildings having singular, dedicated delivery point, the postal code can be used as a succinct and precise identifier of buildings in Singapore, akin to a geocode.
The former General Post Office building, now the Fullerton Hotel. During the 1850s, the post office, then known as the General Post Office (GPO), moved in 1854 to its own building [a] near City Hall, on the banks of the Singapore River, to cope with the growing mail volumes. However, despite the building being much more spacious, its location ...
Mothership was started in 2013 as a socio-political blog for young Singaporeans. The timing of its conception coincided with a period of political and social change in Singapore following the watershed elections of 2011. [2] Mothership's "48 reasons why you still feel for Singapore" was published in August 2013 when the site was in beta. It ...
It is the largest and oldest local bank in continuous operation in Singapore with over four million customers. [1] Established on 1 January 1877 as the Post Office Savings Bank (Chinese: 郵政儲蓄銀行; pinyin: Yóuzhèngchǔxù Yínháng), [2] POSB currently operates as part of DBS Bank after being acquired on 16 November 1998. [3]