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Website. postoffice.co.uk. Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, is a 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 ...
Coordinates: 51°31′29″N 0°06′43″W. Mount Pleasant Post Office (2023). The Mount Pleasant Mail Centre (often shortened as Mount Pleasant, known internally as the Mount[1] and officially known as the London Central Mail Centre) [2] is a mail centre operated by Royal Mail in London, England. The site has previously operated as one of the ...
The early Royal Mail Coaches were similar to ordinary family coaches, but with Post Office livery. [18] The first mail coach ran in 1784, operating between Bristol and London. [19] Delivery staff received uniforms for the first time in 1793, and the Post Office Investigation Branch was established.
Industry. A small number of postal services operate widely in the United Kingdom. Most notably and previously mentioned is Royal Mail. After the opening up of the industry, competitors such as Whistl and UK Mail found their place offering business postal solutions. These companies, despite being competitors to Royal Mail, hand over sorted mail ...
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 ...
The New General Post Office, London, 1829, by James Pollard, showing the main west façade on St Martin's Le Grand. Smirke's new General Post Office opened on 23 September 1829. It was the UK's second purpose-built post office; [10] Dublin's GPO (completed in 1818 to a design by Francis Johnston and still in use) predates it. [11]
The term "post-office" [3] has been in use since the 1650s, [4] shortly after the legalisation of private mail services in England in 1635. [5] In early modern England, post riders—mounted couriers—were placed, or "posted", [6] every few hours along post roads at posting houses (also known as post houses) between major cities, or "post towns".
Cardiff Mail Centre (also known as Penarth Road Sorting Office) is the main headquarters and sorting office for Royal Mail in Cardiff, Wales, and one of the main mail centres for the southwest of the United Kingdom.