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1903 4d Express mail cover from Kendall-Bedford with red official Royal Mail express label affixed. The vertical line also indicates that express service is required. Express mail is an expedited mail delivery service for which the customer pays a premium for faster delivery.
1635 31 July - Charles I made the Royal Mail service available to the public for the first time with postage being paid by the recipient. [7]1639 - The General Court of Massachusetts designates the tavern of Richard Fairbanks in Boston as the official repository of overseas mail, making it the first postal establishment in the Thirteen Colonies.
Falmouth Packet Service memorial, The Moor. Packet boats, offering a regular scheduled mail service, had been in use for the route between Holyhead and Dublin (providing a mail connection between Britain and Ireland) since at least 1598; but for letters to and from continental Europe a different approach was taken: the post was entrusted to messengers, who would then make their own ...
Royal Mail aircraft-marking; on a British Airways Airbus A320-232 G-EUUI. In recent years the shift to air transport for mail has left only three ships with the right to the prefix or its variations: RMS Segwun, which serves as a passenger vessel in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada; RMV Scillonian III, which serves the Isles of Scilly; and RMS Queen Mary 2.
The southbound Fast Mail carried the train number of 97, and was later known by the nickname of "Old 97". One such trip made by the train, on September 27, 1903, derailed at Stillhouse Trestle in Danville, Virginia , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and was later known as the " Wreck of the Old 97 ", [ 4 ] [ 5 ] for which the service was most well known.
The sale of Royal Mail's parent company to a Czech billionaire has been cleared by the government. The £3.6bn takeover by Daniel Kretinsky's EP Group has been given the go-ahead after agreeing ...
Royal Mail has been fined £10.5m by the regulator for failing to meet delivery targets for first and second class mail. The fine is almost double the penalty the company was hit with last year ...
One of the GWR's most well known express trains was the Cornish Riviera Express from Paddington to Penzance. From 1906 it had two slip portions, the first was slipped at Westbury which continued to Weymouth and the other at Exeter St Davids which continued to Torquay. A third slip was added in 1907 at Taunton which terminated there.