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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 ...
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 ...
In 2021 Royal Mail announced plans to trial using a drone between the UK mainland and St Mary's airport, Isles of Scilly. The twin-engine vehicle is manufactured in the UK by the Windracers and is capable of carrying 100 kg of mail, which is the same weight as a typical delivery round. It is able to fly in poor weather conditions, including fog ...
The mail centre stands on the site of the former Coldbath Fields Prison that ceased to function in 1885. Its potential use for Post Office purposes was championed by Frederick Ebenezer Baines, Assistant Secretary of the General Post Office, who had been instrumental in establishing the parcel post service in 1882.
A 1936 registered letter from Canada to Great Britain sent via the RMS Queen Mary A registered parcel sent from India to the UK with electronic barcode registration Registered mail is a postal service in many countries which allows the sender proof of mailing via a receipt and, upon request, electronic verification that an article was delivered ...
The New General Post Office, London, 1829, by James Pollard, showing the main west façade on St Martin's Le Grand. Smirke's new General Post Office opened on 23 September 1829. It was the UK's second purpose-built post office; [10] Dublin's GPO (completed in 1818 to a design by Francis Johnston and still in use) predates it. [11]
Until October 1969, the GPO had a monopoly on the provision of all telephone lines and telephones within the UK, other than in Kingston upon Hull, which for historical reasons was unique in maintaining its own municipal telephone service. From the 1st of October 1969, the Post Office Corporation replaced the General Post Office with ownership ...
The UK's GPO (General Post Office) Telegram messenger motorbike of the 1940sIn many English-speaking countries, a telegram delivery boy, telegraph boy or telegram boy was a young man employed to deliver telegrams, usually on bicycle.