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2. Postal services in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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   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; Green Paper on Postal Reform (1994) published, options for further privatisation and regulation of the Post Office and Royal Mail

3. Post Office Limited - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Royal Mail - Wikipedia

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   In 1986 the Post Office was subdivided into four businesses: Royal Mail Letters, Royal Mail Parcels, Post Office Counters and the National Girobank. Girobank was sold to Alliance & Leicester in 1990, but the remaining business continued under public ownership as privatisation of this was deemed to be too unpopular.

5. Parcelforce - Wikipedia

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   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.

6. UK Mail - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. General Post Office - Wikipedia

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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 ...