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The General Post Office (GPO; Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist) is the former headquarters of An Post — the Irish Post Office. It remains its registered office and the principal post office of Dublin [1] — the capital city of Ireland — and is situated in the centre of O'Connell Street, the city's main thoroughfare.
The GPO Museum is located in the General Post Office in Dublin, Ireland which opened on 29 March 2016. [1] On the same location was the An Post Museum located between 28 July 2010 and 30 May 2015. It was a small museum which offered visitors an insight into the role played by the Post Office in the development of Irish society over many ...
Dublin 1 includes most of the city centre north of the River Liffey, including Abbey Street, Amiens Street, Capel Street, Dorset Street, Henry Street and Mary Street, Mountjoy Square, Marlborough Street, North Wall, O'Connell Street, Parnell Square, and Talbot Street. This area include the General Post Office, from which distances are measured.
An Post's previous logo used from 1 January 1984 to 13 December 2018 An Post postal van The General Post Office in Dublin, former headquarters of An Post A small An Post post box attached to a telephone or electricity pole, or street light, is usually called a lamp box Post office in Kincasslagh, County Donegal
Post-1961 Dublin street sign displaying the street name in Irish and English, with postal district number Main article: List of Dublin postal districts In Dublin city and its suburbs, a system of postal districts was introduced in 1917 by the Royal Mail with the prefix "D", and retained after Ireland became an independent country, without the ...
The Dublin postal districts number were introduced in 1961 as "Dublin 2" in this south city area. [27]: 371 A dedicated post office was built in St Andrew's Street in 1948 to replace the one in Church Lane. Designed by the Office of Public Works architects Sidney Maskell and John Fox as a Branch Office, it is one of Dublin's busiest post offices.
The Postmasters General of Ireland, held by two people simultaneously, was a new appointment set up as part of the establishment of the Irish Post Office independent from that of Great Britain, by the Act 23 & 24 Geo 3 c. 17 (I) in 1784. The post lasted nearly fifty years. [1] The act was not repealed upon the Act of Union in 1800 [2] but in ...
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 ...