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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    A 5-shilling (abbreviated as 5/- or 5s) (£0.25) stamp first appeared in 1867, followed by 10 shilling (£0.50) and £1 values in 1878, culminating in a £5 stamp in 1882. Meanwhile, the age of the Penny Reds had come to an end along with the Perkins Bacon printing contract.

  3. List of British postage stamps - Wikipedia

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    Low value definitives, 1873–80 (coloured corner letters) Low value definitives, halfpenny to 5d 1880–81. Penny Lilac 1881, the most issued Victorian stamp. High value definitives, 2/6 to £1 1883–84. Lilac and Green low value definitives 1883. Jubilee issue postage stamps 1887–92.

  4. Royal Mail - Wikipedia

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    Website. royalmail .com. The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distribution Services. It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). The company used the name Consignia for a brief period in the early 2000s ...

  5. History of the British Army postal service - Wikipedia

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    Fig 1 - A graph showing weekly processing of mail bags and registered letters through the Home Postal Depot RE 1914–1919 Fig 2 - A graph showing weekly processing of parcels through the Home Postal Depot RE 1914–1919. The Home Postal Depot (HPD) was formed on 10 August 1914, but on a very ad-hoc basis, under the administration of the GPO.

  6. History of United States postage rates - Wikipedia

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    Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.

  7. Uniform Penny Post - Wikipedia

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    Uniform Penny Post. The Uniform Penny Post was a component of the comprehensive reform of the Royal Mail, the UK 's official postal service, that took place in the 19th century. The reforms were a government initiative to eradicate the abuse and corruption of the existing service. Under the reforms, the postal service became a government ...

  8. Postal counties of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The postal counties of the United Kingdom, now known as former postal counties, [1] were postal subdivisions in routine use by the Royal Mail until 1996. [2] The purpose of the postal county – as opposed to any other kind of county – was to aid the sorting of mail by differentiating between like-sounding post towns.

  9. Royal Mail, the official postal service of the United Kingdom, cannot deliver letters and parcels on time, according to the country’s communications regulator. Ofcom fined the company £5.6 ...

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