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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 was originally known as the Fullerton Building, and also as the General Post Office Building. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The address is 1 Fullerton Square. The Fullerton Building was named after Robert Fullerton , the first Governor of the Straits Settlements (1826–1829). [ 3 ]
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.
In 1962, the post office began issuing a new standard series of stamps depicting orchids, fish and birds native to Singapore, without the portrait of the Queen. [ 9 ] A total of 73 postage stamps were issued in colonial and self-governing Singapore between 1948 and 1963, first "Singapore", and from 1959 "State of Singapore", with English ...
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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 point, the postal code can be used as a succinct and precise identifier of buildings in Singapore, akin to a geocode.
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