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Royal Mail – from 1516 AD to present
The Royal Mail in the UK is one of British institutions more representative and, as such, I thought it would be an idea to write about this great icon. The Royal Mail traces its history to 1516, when Henry VIII established a "Master of the posts" because eventually became the office of Postmaster General. The Royal Mail service was first made available to the public by Charles I on 31 July 1635, with postage paid by the consignee, and the General Post Office (GPO) was officially established by Charles II in 1660.
Between 1719 and 1763, Ralph Allen, Chief Post the bathroom, signed a series of contracts with the Post Office to develop and expand Britain's postal network. Organized mail coaches that were provided by both Wilson & Company of London and Williams & Company of Bath. The first Royal Mail coaches were coaches like ordinary family but with livery Office Post.
In December 1839, substantial reform began when postage rates were revised by the short message fourpenny uniform. major changes place when the uniform is Penny Post was submitted on January 10, 1840 by which a single rate for delivery anywhere in Great Britain and Ireland was pre-paid by the sender. A few months later, to certify that the shipment had been paid in a letter, the sender can place the first adhesive shipping Stramp, the Penny Black was available for use on 6 May of that year. Other innovations were the introduction of prepaid cards designed William Mulready letter sheets and envelopes stationary.
Since the United Kingdom was the first country to issue postage prepaid, British stamps are the stamps just do not bear the name of the issuing country of them.
A late 19 th century, there were between six and twelve per day mail deliveries in London, allowing the exchange of correspondents several letters in one day.
Royal Timeline Mail
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1516: Royal Mail established by Henry VIII with the Master of the posts.
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1635: Royal Mail service first made available to the public by Charles I.
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1654: Oliver Cromwell granted a monopoly on the service in England to "Office of Postage".
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1657: Sets the postal rates introduced.
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1660: General Post Office (GPO) officially established by Charles II.
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1661: First use of date stamp. First appointed Postmaster General.
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1784: First mail coach (between Bristol and London).
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1793: First of all uniformed personnel in the delivery. Post Office Research Power formed, the oldest recognized authority in the world criminal investigations.
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1830: The first mail train (Liverpool Railway and Manchester).
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1838: Post Office Postal System introduced.
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1839: Uniform Post fourpenny introduced.
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1840: Uniform Penny Post introduced.
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1840: First adhesive stamp (the Penny Black).
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1852: The first pillar of the Office Post box built (in Jersey).
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1853: First post boxes built in Britain.
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1857: Tables first wall installed and Shrewsbury Market Drayton
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1870: Post wire service starts.
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1870: Post Office Act The sending of 'indecent or obscene "literature, presented the middle d rate for postcards, banned the use of postal outsfrom cutting, introduced ½ d rate for newspapers, provided for the issuance of paper containers.
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1880: The first use of bicycles deliver mail.
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1881: Postal introduced.
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1882: Army Post Office Corps made up of employees GPO (see Post Office British Forces)
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1883: Parcel post begins.
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1894: First place orders.
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1912: opens the post office phone service nationwide.
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1919: first airmail service developed by the International Real Engineers (Postal Section) and the Royal Air Force.
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1941: Airgraph service introduced between the UK and Egypt. The service was later expanded to Canada (1941), East Africa (1941), Burma (1942), India (1942), South Africa (1942), Australia (1943), New Zealand (1943), Ceylon (1944) and Italy (1944).
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1941: aerogramme service introduced.
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1968: system Postal introduced two classes. National Giro bank opens.
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1969: General Post Office change of government department to nationalize industry.
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1971: The postal services in Britain was suspended for two months between January and March as a result of a national postal strike over a demand for payment. [19]
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1974: Postcodes spread throughout the UK.
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1981: Services telecommunications split out as British Telecom. Rest renamed as "Post Office".
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1986: Separated from companies delivering letters, delivering packages and running post offices.
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1988: Postal workers to hold its first national strike for 17 years after to walk along the premiums paid to recruit new workers in London and the Southeast.
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1989: Royal Mail provides RoMec (Royal Mail Engineering and Construction) to provide Maintenance Services business services. RoMec becomes owned 51% of Royal Mail and 49% in a company Haden BML joint.
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1990: Girobank sold to Alliance & Leicester Building Society.
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1990: renamed Royal Mail Parcels Parcelforce.
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1999: A new business: Royal Mail ViaCode – or limited ViaCode – was launched. This wholly owned subsidiary of the Post Office offers encrypted online services for businesses, with a "digital certificate" technology. The company soon was settled in 2002 [20].
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2004: Reduction of deliveries to once a day. Travelling post office ("Mail Trains") final. [21] SmartStamp is introduced.
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2005: Mail train re-introduced on some lines.
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2006: Royal Mail loses its monopoly when the controller [22], Postcomm, open market Postal three years ahead of the rest of Europe. [23] Competitors can be made by mail, and move to Royal Mail for delivery, a service known as access to distribution. It also introduces price in proportion (PiP) first and second class via email.
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2006: online shipping permits Royal Mail customers to pay for postage online, without having to buy traditional stamps.
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2007: Royal Mail Group PLC Royal becomes Mail Group Ltd in a slight change of legal status.
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2007: Official Industrial Action takes place over wages, conditions and pensions.
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2007: Sunday collections final pillar boxes [24].
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2009: (September) opens CWU national vote for collective action [25].
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2010: Cycles begin to be eliminated, 130 years after it was first used.
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