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SST in 2014. The 6.7 acres (2.7 ha) campus is located at 1 Technology Drive in Clementi, opposite Singapore Polytechnic. [3] [21] Costing S$49 million, construction of the permanent campus was completed in 2011, and SST moved in on 3 January 2012. [22] [23]
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 .
In 1981, Malaysia decided to standardise the time across its territories to a uniform UTC+08:00. Singapore elected to follow suit, citing business and travel schedules. [14] [15] The change took effect on New Year's Day (1 January) 1982 when Singapore moved half an hour forward on New Year's Eve (31 December) 1981 at 11:30 pm creating "Singapore Standard Time" (SST) or "Singapore Time" (SGT). [16]
From 26 November 1979 to 1 February 1980, the post office was closed for renovations. [4] It reopened with a larger lobby, a newer service counter and more post office boxes. [5] In March 2013, the My First Classroom preschool opened a branch in the second storey of the post office.
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]
POSB - Post Office Savings Bank (now known as POSBank) PP - Public Prosecutor (see also "APP" and "DPP") or Parkway Parade; PROGRESS - Providing Opportunities through Growth, Remaking Singapore for Success; PS - Plaza Singapura; PSA - Port of Singapore Authority (now known as PSA International) PSC - Public Service Commission
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.
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 ...