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The issue of the first native Irish Free State postal orders began in September 1927. The design of these included a harp surrounded by the inscription ' SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN ' inside a box giving the poundage in both Irish and English. The field of the postal orders was bilingually inscribed in Irish and English.
The launch of a national postcode system (Eircode, Irish: éirchód [8]) in Ireland began on 28 April 2014. [9] The system incorporates the existing numbered Dublin postal districts as part of the routing key. [10] [11] Eircode provides a unique postcode for each address. [12] The codes, known as Eircodes, consist of seven characters.
Oliver Cromwell's Postal Act of 1657 created a combined General Post Office for the three kingdoms of Ireland, Scotland, and England; the position was affirmed by Charles II and his parliament by the Post Office Act 1660. [2] As of 2020, A Post remains one of Ireland's largest employers but it has undergone considerable downsizing. In 2020 ...
Welsh entrepreneur Pryce Pryce-Jones formed the first mail order company in 1861. [3] [4] He distributed catalogues of Welsh flannel across the United Kingdom, with customers able to order by mail for the first time—this following the Uniform Penny Post in 1840 and the invention of the postage stamp (Penny Black) where there was a charge of one penny for carriage and delivery between any two ...
A Belgian railway parcel stamp used in 1881 at Verviers. The international parcel service, which allowed the orderly shipment of mailed packages and parcels from one country to another according to predetermined rates, was established by the Universal Postal Union on 1 October 1881 (Great Britain, India, The Netherlands and Persia, 1 April 1882), following the agreement of 1880 in Paris during ...
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 ...
Parcel Direct Ireland is a courier service provider used by the public worldwide. The company was founded by Stephen O’ Sullivan [ 1 ] in 2014. Based in a head office in Cork City , Parcel Direct Ireland offers courier services to consumers and small businesses throughout Ireland.
Ireland on Sunday – replaced with Irish Mail on Sunday 2006; The Irish Citizen – closed 1920; Irish Daily Star Sunday – closed January 2011; The Irish Family – closed 2008; An Gaedheal – closed 1937; Metro Éireann - closed 2020; Irish News of the World – closed July 2011; The Sunday Journal; The Sunday Press – closed in 1995