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The Louth-London Royal Mail, by Charles Cooper Henderson, 1820 Edinburgh and London Royal Mail, by Jacques-Laurent Agasse Lower Edmonton Royal Mail sorting office, in London The Royal Mail can trace its history back to 1516, when Henry VIII established a "Master of the Posts", [ 8 ] a position that was renamed " Postmaster General " in 1710.
International Distribution Services plc (formerly Royal Mail Limited, Royal Mail plc and International Distributions Services plc) is a British company providing postal and courier services. The UK government initially retained a 30% stake in the company, [ 3 ] but sold its remaining shares in 2015. [ 4 ]
Royal Mail signage at a Toronto post office built in 1833.The British Royal Mail administered the Province of Canada's postal system until 1851.. On August 3, 1527, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, the first known letter was sent from present day Canada. [10]
The company was known as German Parcel when it was founded in 1989 by Rico Back, formed by bringing together twenty-five freight forwarders. [2] Ten years later it was acquired by Royal Mail Group, which used it to form a new holding company: Global Logistics Systems (GLS).
In 1854, Hugh launched the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company as part of the Allan Line, and two years later ousted Samuel Cunard to take control of the Royal Mail contract between Britain and North America. By the 1880s, the Allan Line was the world's largest privately owned shipping concern.
Royal Mail, which dates back to the reign of Henry VIII in the 1500s, is set to be sold to a Czech billionaire in a deal that will keep the institution based in Britain. Royal Mail, which dates ...
Royal Mail's parent company is being sold to a business controlled by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky in a deal worth £3.6bn, after the Labour government approved the deal last year.
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.