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The Royal Mail runs, alongside its stamped mail services, another sector of post called business mail. The large majority of Royal Mail's business mail service is for PPI or franked mail, where the sender prints their own 'stamp'. For PPI mail, this involves either a simple rubber stamp and an ink pad, or a printed label.
RM4SCC (Royal Mail 4-State Customer Code) [1] is the name of the barcode character set based on the Royal Mail 4-State Bar Code symbology created by Royal Mail. The RM4SCC is used for the Royal Mail Cleanmail service. It enables UK postcodes as well as Delivery Point Suffixes (DPSs) to be easily read by a machine at high speed. This barcode is ...
Henry VIII created the Royal Mail in 1516, appointing Brian Tuke as "Master of the Postes", while Elizabeth I appointed Thomas Randolph as "Chief Postmaster". Under Thomas Witherings, chief postmaster under Charles I, the Royal Mail was made available to the public (1635), [2] with a regular system of post roads, houses, and staff. From this ...
The number of letters Royal Mail delivers has fallen from a peak of 20 billion in 2004-05 to 6.6 billion last year. However, the price of stamps have continued to rise. Since 2022, Royal Mail has ...
In 1990, the Royal Mail issued five stamps to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Penny Black. They featured the Machin image of Queen Elizabeth II overlaying the image of Queen Victoria from the Penny Black. An NVI issue was released in 2000.
Royal Mail could ditch its near-daily deliveries of letters as the centuries-old British institution attempts to modernize its service and plug a growing hole in its finances.
Tercentenary of Establishment of General Letter Office: Two (3d, 1s 3d) Faith Jaques: 19 September 1960 1st Anniversary of European Postal & Telecommunications Conference Two (6d, 1s 6d) 1961 28 August 1961 Centenary of Post Office Savings Bank Three (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 3d, 1s 6d) 18 September 1961
A new pillar box in Great Cambourne in south Cambridgeshire has become the first to bear the monogram denoting Charles’s reign.