In the 's the monopoly was given to Edmund Prideaux, parliamentarian and lawyer who eventually became attorney-general. An act introduced in introduced a new system for Britain, which was entitled "Postage of England, Scotland, and Ireland Settled". The first Royal Mail coach ran in , and operated between the cities of London and Bristol. At this time the Post Office Investigation Branch was introduced, and claims to be the oldest recognised criminals investigations authority in the world.
Stamps used as postage rates were first seen in after a reform of the uniform penny postage. Originally a single rate for delivery was in operation, but following the Uniform Fourpenny Post reform it was decided that postage had to be pre-paid by the sender, with the world's first adhesive postage stamp introduced in This remained the status quo for over three hundred years, when in the GPO was abolished in an act called The Post Office Act , which stated that a new public authority was to be created, governed by a chairman, and called the "Post Office".
The Royal Mail is able to trace its history right back to medieval times. After Adam Crozier left the position of chief executive, Canadian Moya Greene was appointed into the role, the first woman ever to have held the post excuse the pun! This plaque now marks the spot where it was built. The first batch of Morris Minor Post Office vans, first introduced in to deliver small quantities of mail in rural areas and towns.
The BBC reports that despite councils' attempts to kurb them, the UK's high streets have seen a huge growth in fast food outlets. Could this mark the death knell for the Great British high street, and what can we do about it to halt its decline?
You really couldn't make it up, could you? Well, the current website was absolutely in dire need of a good redesign - from the ground up. So I set out to pull it all apart and get it up and running again to become the most comprehensive guide to every postcode in the UK. This poster from the s encouraged people to use their postcodes.
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The guerilla plant. Although written letters may be becoming a less popular medium of communication than email and cell phones, there will likely be a need for mail delivery for the foreseeable future—and thus, a need for zip codes. But besides potentially determining property taxes, what do zip codes really mean and why do we have them? Zip codes are actually a much more recent phenomenon than you might believe. In fact, they're only 52 years old—a concept that was introduced during World War II, and officially implemented in The zip Zoning Improvement Plan code was created when the postal service lost a huge portion of their staff who went to fight in the war.
Because of this, they needed a simple way to help the understaffed postal service deliver mail effectively. Initially, the zip code was only a two-digit number: the first denoted the city, the second denoted the state.
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