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1915 - 15 August - British forces overprint Iranian stamps in Bushire, use until 16 October. 1915 - British and French occupation forces overprint stamps for Cameroon. 1916 - United States postal inspectors solve the last known stagecoach robbery in the US. 1917- British armed forces in Palestine issue the famous EEF stamps. December 1917
The postal history of the United Kingdom is notable in at least two respects: first, for the introduction of postage stamps in 1840, and secondly for the establishment of an efficient postal system throughout the British Empire, laying the foundation of many national systems still in existence today. As the originator of postage stamps, the UK ...
Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.
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 ...
The quality of postal services in the 17th and 18th centuries improved with development of better roads and means of transport. [1]Anthony Trollope is credited with major contributions to the development of postal services in the years 1851-1867, described, e.g. in Chapters 8 and 13 of his autobiography.
In 1971, postal services in Great Britain were suspended for two months between January and March as the result of a national postal strike over a pay claim. [36] British Telecom was separated from the Post Office in 1980, and emerged as an independent business in 1981. In 1986 the Post Office was subdivided into four businesses: Royal Mail ...
In England, the postal service, from 1660 General Post Office, had developed into a monopoly, affirmed by Oliver Cromwell in 1654, [1] [2] for the collection and carriage of letters between post towns, however, there was no delivery system until William Dockwra and his partner Robert Murray established the London Penny Post in 1680.
The history of the British post office (Harvard University Press, 1912) online. John, Richard R. Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) excerpt; Le Roux, Muriel, et al. eds. A Concise History of the French Post Office: From Its Origins to the Present Time (2018) Lowe, Robson (1951).