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A post office called Centre Post was established in 1884 and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904. [2] Center Post was named from its relatively central location between Bronco and Trion. [3] Another tradition states a hitching post in center of town caused the name to be adopted. [4]
A town centre will lose its last remaining post office when the WHSmith branch it is based in closes, it has been confirmed. The Luton Point store was described by the high street bookseller and ...
Many post towns are former "county towns" but postcode areas rarely align with the county (or successor authority) area. For example, within the PA postcode area the PA1 and PA78 postcode districts are 140 miles (225 km) apart, and cover 5 local authority areas; and the eight postcode areas of the London post town cover only 40% of Greater ...
Central Post Office building from 1972 to 2019. On 4 April 1972 the Post Office moved into the new building just to the north of the existing office which had been constructed at a cost of £300,000. [15] Post Office business was transacted at the new Queen Street office until 2019 when it moved into W.H. Smith in the Victoria Centre. [16]
The NR postcode area, also known as the Norwich postcode area, [2] is a group of 35 postcode districts in the east of England, within 16 post towns.These cover central, north and eastern Norfolk (including Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Attleborough, Wymondham, Dereham, Fakenham, Walsingham, Wells-next-the-Sea, Melton Constable, Holt, Sheringham, Cromer and North Walsham) and part of north-east ...
The Post Office Research Station was first established as a separate section of the General Post Office in 1909. [ 1 ] In 1921, the Research Station moved to Dollis Hill , north west London , initially in ex-army huts.
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Mail sorting office in Wellington General Post Office, New Zealand c.1900. A sorting office or processing and distribution center (P&DC; name used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) [1]) is any location where postal operators bring mail after collection for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, [2] which may be a direct delivery or sent onwards to another regional or ...