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The Louth-London Royal Mail, by Charles Cooper Henderson, 1820 Edinburgh and London Royal Mail, by Jacques-Laurent Agasse Lower Edmonton Royal Mail sorting office, in London The Royal Mail can trace its history back to 1516, when Henry VIII established a "Master of the Posts", [ 8 ] a position that was renamed " Postmaster General " in 1710.
The timetable announced by Royal Mail in July 2010 indicated that this was likely to happen between 2013 and 2016. [6] In 2013 Felicity MacFarlane stated the Royal Mail position: [28] As we have stressed for a number of years, Royal Mail's Postcode Address File does not contain county names as they are not required for postal purposes.
[61] [62] [63] Courier services and advertising mail companies complained that the absence of such a system put Ireland at a disadvantage compared with other European countries. [60] An Post had used a system of three-digit sort codes, similar to the Mailsort system used by Royal Mail in the United Kingdom, for pre-sorting mail in bulk. [64]
TPO at the Colne Valley Railway.Visible to the right of the Royal Mail logo is the letter box, for first class post only. TPO interior. A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train used in Great Britain and Ireland where the post was sorted en route, used from 1830 to 1996, with non-TPO mail trains ending in 2024.
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DX (trading as DX and DX Freight) is a British mail, courier and logistics company, with operations throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland based in Datchet, England. [ 1 ] They employ more than 3,000 staff, and their network covers most UK and Ireland business and residential addresses.
The LA postcode area, also known as the Lancaster postcode area, [2] is a group of 23 postcode districts in north-west England, within 17 post towns. These cover north Lancashire (including Lancaster, Morecambe and Carnforth) and southern Cumbria (including Barrow-in-Furness, Kendal, Ulverston, Windermere, Dalton-in-Furness, Milnthorpe, Sedbergh, Grange-over-Sands, Askam-in-Furness, Kirkby-in ...
In October 2012, Royal Mail announced an investment of £75 million in Parcelforce Worldwide planned over four years, which would involve the opening of new processing centres in Chorley, Lancashire and depots in Basingstoke, Hampshire and Bodmin, Cornwall. [10] In September 2021, Aaron Barnes took over as Managing Director of Parcelforce ...