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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 ...
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A vintage Post Office Telephones van, dating from 1946. Until October 1969, the GPO had a monopoly on the provision of all telephone lines and telephones within the UK, other than in Kingston upon Hull, which for historical reasons was unique in maintaining its own municipal telephone service. From the 1st of October 1969, the Post Office ...
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.
The telephone service in the United Kingdom was originally provided by private companies and local city councils, but by 1912–13 [4] all except the telephone service of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and Guernsey had been bought out by the General Post Office. Post Office Telephones also operated telephone services in Jersey and the Isle of ...
A national telephone service was opened by the Post Office in 1912. In 1919, the first international airmail service was developed by Royal Engineers (Postal Section) and Royal Air Force . The London Post Office Railway was opened in 1927.
Post Office Telecommunications was set up as a division of the Post Office, in October 1969. [19] The Post Office Act 1969 was passed to provide for greater efficiency in post and telephone services; rather than run a range of services, each organisation would be able to focus on their respective service, with dedicated management.
In 1969 Post Office Telecommunications, of which the telegraph service formed a part, was made a distinct department of the Post Office, [291] and in 1981 it was separated entirely from the Post Office as British Telecom as a first step to its privatisation in 1984. [292]