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Royal Mail Group Limited, ... Prior to this date, Royal Mail and Parcelforce ... was created for consumers to express any concerns they may have with the postal ...
Henry VIII created the Royal Mail in 1516, appointing Brian Tuke as "Master of the Postes", while Elizabeth I appointed Thomas Randolph as "Chief Postmaster". Under Thomas Witherings, chief postmaster under Charles I, the Royal Mail was made available to the public (1635), [4] with a regular system of post roads, houses, and staff. From this ...
Postmaster General, position created in 1510; Royal Mail, established 1516 by King Henry VIII; General Post Office, established 1660 by King Charles II; Rowland Hill, creator of the penny post, 1840; Post Office Limited, separated from Royal Mail as a new business in 1986; Parcelforce, separated as a new division within Royal Mail in 1986
1635 31 July - Charles I made the Royal Mail service available to the public for the first time with postage being paid by the recipient. [7]1639 - The General Court of Massachusetts designates the tavern of Richard Fairbanks in Boston as the official repository of overseas mail, making it the first postal establishment in the Thirteen Colonies.
Royal Mail, one of the U.K.'s oldest institutions, began in the 1500s as a service exclusively for the monarch and the royal court. It became a public postal service in the 1600s.
Royal Mail Post Office Regulations handbill giving details of the Uniform Penny Post, dated January 7, 1840. The Uniform Penny Post was a component of the comprehensive reform of the Royal Mail, the UK's official postal service, that took place in the 19th century. The reforms were a government initiative to eradicate the abuse and corruption ...
The British government has been granted a golden share in the recently-sold Royal Mail in a bid to keep it in the UK. Royal Mail’s sale to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group was ...
Emma Gilthorpe, Royal Mail’s chief executive, said: “More than 115,000 postboxes across the UK have recorded the succession of monarchs since the first box bore the cypher of Queen Victoria.