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The whole establishment of the post office in the 1830s consisted of one European clerk, one local writer and a peon. To cope with the increasing volume of mail, the Post Office, then known as the Singapore Post Office, later General Post Office, was moved in 1854 to its own building near the Town Hall by the side of the Singapore River.
It is the largest and oldest local bank in continuous operation in Singapore with over four million customers. [1] Established on 1 January 1877 as the Post Office Savings Bank (Chinese: 郵政儲蓄銀行; pinyin: Yóuzhèngchǔxù Yínháng), [2] POSB currently operates as part of DBS Bank after being acquired on 16 November 1998. [3]
Using the 6-digit postal code to look up the Central Public Lirbary in the OneMap application. Due to Singapore being a small city-state and most buildings having singular, dedicated delivery points, the postal code can be used as a succinct and precise identifier of buildings in Singapore, akin to a geocode.
The former General Post Office building, now the Fullerton Hotel. During the 1850s, the post office, then known as the General Post Office (GPO), moved in 1854 to its own building [a] near City Hall, on the banks of the Singapore River, to cope with the growing mail volumes. However, despite the building being much more spacious, its location ...
He stayed to work in Great Britain and returned to Singapore in 1955 to become the assistant comptroller with the postal department. [4] He was the country's first local comptroller of post in 1957, and the first Asian postmaster-general in 1967. [4] He held the position until his retirement in 1971. [5]
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Near the Singapore Philatelic Museum is the recently restored Masonic Club. On 6 March 2020, it was announced that it will become a dedicated children’s museum when it reopens in 2021. [ 2 ] On 7 December 2021, it was announced that due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic , the reopening was pushed back to December 2022. [ 3 ]
The remainder of Telecoms became Singapore Post Private Limited and a smaller Telecommunications Authority of Singapore (later becoming Infocomm Media Development Authority). [14] 1992: SingTel introduces the call zone service, made defunct in 1997. October 1993: SingTel became a public company (Singapore Telecommunications Limited) via an IPO ...