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Post Office Savings Bank became National Savings Bank in 1969, later renamed National Savings and Investments (NS&I), an agency of HM Treasury. While continuing to offer National Savings services, the (then) General Post Office , created the National Giro in 1968 (privatized as Girobank and acquired by Alliance & Leicester in 1989).
A certificate of a $5 deposit in the United States Postal Savings System issued on September 10, 1932. The United States Postal Savings System was a postal savings system signed into law by President William Howard Taft and operated by the United States Post Office Department, predecessor of the United States Postal Service, from January 1, 1911, until July 1, 1967.
Post Office Savings Bank is a name used by postal savings systems in several countries, including: New Zealand, later renamed the PostBank; United Kingdom, later renamed the National Savings and Investments; Singapore, later renamed POSB Bank; Kenya, also known as the Kenya Post Office Savings Bank; Austra, also known as the Österreichische ...
Logo used by the Post Office (and later the National) Savings Bank from 1936. [5] The Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) was founded in 1861 by the Palmerston government following a suggestion by George Chetwynd, a clerk in the Money Order department of the General Post Office. [6] It was the world's first postal savings system.
People's Own Savings Bank; PlusGirot; POSB Bank; Post Bank (Russia) Post Bank of Iran; Post Office Money; Post Office Savings Bank (New Zealand) India Post Payments Bank; Postal Savings Bank of China; Poštanska štedionica; Postbank (South Africa) Postbank N.V. PostBank Uganda; Postbanken; PKO Bank Polski
The movement was created in March 1916 as the National Savings Committee and this was supplemented by volunteer local committees and paid civil servants. A number of different organisations were loosely affiliated to make up the movement, including the Trustees Savings Banks and National Savings (previously the Post Office Savings Bank).
Other similar government savings schemes in India include: Public Provident Fund (PPF), Post Office Fixed Deposit, Post Office Recurring Deposit, etc. [3] The certificates were heavily promoted by the Indian government in the 1950s after India's independence, to collect funds for nation-building
The Post Office had long been an agent for National Savings and Investments (NS&I), which was originally the Post Office Savings Bank but is now a wholly separate institution. From November 2011, only Premium Bonds could be bought in Post Offices, but the 156-year relationship ended in August 2015 when Premium Bonds became the final NS&I ...