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The whole establishment of the post office in the 1830s consisted of one European clerk, one local writer and a peon. To cope with the increasing volume of mail, the Post Office, then known as the Singapore Post Office, later General Post Office, was moved in 1854 to its own building near the Town Hall by the side of the Singapore River.
It is the largest and oldest local bank in continuous operation in Singapore with over four million customers. [1] Established on 1 January 1877 as the Post Office Savings Bank (Chinese: 郵政儲蓄銀行; pinyin: Yóuzhèngchǔxù Yínháng), [2] POSB currently operates as part of DBS Bank after being acquired on 16 November 1998. [3]
Formerly known as Post Office Savings Bank, it was established on 1 January 1877 at the General Post Office Building in Raffles Place by the Straits Settlements government. [ 16 ] By 1976, POSB had one million depositors, while deposits crossed the S$ 1 billion mark.
Post Office Savings Bank (POSB), acquired by DBS Bank on 16 November 1998. Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA), formed on 1 October 1994, merged into Media Development Authority on 1 January 2003. Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) corporatised as the Television Corporation of Singapore on 1 October 1994
Internal alterations were carried out on the building by the Public Works Department in 1985. The General Post Office, under Singapore Post, vacated the building in March 1996. [2] [7] Though plans were initiated to conserve the Fullerton Building after that, it was only gazetted as a conservation building by the Singapore Government in 1997 ...
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The former General Post Office building, now the Fullerton Hotel. During the 1850s, the post office, then known as the General Post Office (GPO), moved in 1854 to its own building [a] near City Hall, on the banks of the Singapore River, to cope with the growing mail volumes. However, despite the building being much more spacious, its location ...
A post office building in Edithburgh, Australia The West Toledo Branch Post Office in Toledo, Ohio, in 1912. A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ...