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The Post Office Department was an early pioneer of airmail delivery, with the first airmail flight taking place on June 24, 1918, carrying mail from Montreal to Toronto. [17] By 1927, airmail service had expanded to Manitoba, and a regular airmail route between Rimouski , Quebec , Montreal , and Ottawa had been established.
The first two cards issued, 1973 Cricket and 1973 Inigo Jones, are larger than the current cards, measuring 120 mm x 172 mm in size, while all cards issued from PHQ3 onward are 104 mm x 148 mm in size. This can be confusing for new collectors coming across the first two issues for the first time, if they are not aware of the size difference ...
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.
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Royal Mail Online Postage (OLP), introduced in early 2006, but not promoted heavily until September 2006, is an online service provided by Royal Mail in conjunction with Lockheed Martin, where customers can print out an indicium (indicia in plural), the equivalent of a postage stamp, online onto a label or envelope of certain specified types, or plain paper, without having to buy a normal stamp.
24 Mar 2015 £2.55 garnet red: 21 Mar 2017 £2.65 purple heather: 20 Mar 2018 £2.80 spruce green: 19 Mar 2019 £2.97 rose pink: 17 Mar 2020 £3 dull purple 9 Mar 1999 £3 purple: 3 Jul 2003 £3.15 aqua green: 24 Mar 2015 £3.25 aqua green: 23 Dec 2020 £3.30 rose pink: 24 Mar 2015 £3.45 dark pine green: 19 Mar 2019 £3.60 bright orange: 19 ...
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.
Mailsort was a five-digit address-coding scheme used by the Royal Mail (the UK's postal service) and its business customers for the automatic direction of mail until 2012. [1] Mail users who could present mail sorted by Mailsort code and in quantities of 4,000 upwards (1,000 upwards for large letters and packets) received a discounted postal rate.