History of the postal service

bakergoodchild bakergoodchild.co.uk A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE POSTAL SERVICE MANY BELIEVE THE FIRST POSTAL SYSTEM ORIGINATED IN PERSIA AROUND 500BC. THE GREEK HISTORIAN HERODOTUS WROTE: "IT IS SAID THAT AS MANY DAYS AS THERE ARE IN THE WHOLE JOURNEY, SO MANY ARE THE MEN AND HORSES THAT STAND ALONG THE ROAD, EACH HORSE AND MAN AT THE INTERVAL OF A DAY'S JOURNEY; AND THESE ARE STAYED NEITHER BY SNOW NOR RAIN NOR HEAT NOR DARKNESS FROM ACCOMPLISHING THEIR APPOINTED COURSE WITH ALL SPEED". SOME KEY DATES WITHIN THE BRITISH POSTAL HISTORY PENNY BLACK THE FIRST ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMP, THE PENNY BLACK, WAS RELEASED NATIONALLY. 1840 THE FIRST POST OFFICE PILLAR BOX WAS ERECTED IN JERSEY. THE 1852 BOXES WERE PAINTED DARK GREEN. THESE WERE INTRODUCED TO MAINLAND BRITAIN THE FOLLOWING YEAR. 1881 THE POSTAL ORDER WAS INTRODUCED AND FOLLOWED 2nd TWO YEARS LATER BY THE PARCEL POST SERVICE. 1968 SECOND CLASS STAMPS WERE INTRODUCED OPEN AFTER 350 YEARS OF TRADITION, ROYAL MAIL LOST THEIR MONOPOLY WITHIN THE POSTAL SERVICE WHEN THE REGULATOR, POSTCOMM, OPENED UP THE MARKET THREE YEARS AHEAD OF THE REST OF EUROPE. 2006 2013 PENNY BLACK ROYAL MAIL SHARES FLOAT ON THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE FUN WITH POSTCODES 1.8M 29M 48M POSTCODES ADDRESSES IN POSTCODES AVAILABLE IN THE UK THE UK UNDER ROYAL MAIL'S ALPHA-NUMERIC SYSTEM 1959 1966 1974 THE FIRST POSTCODES THE EIGHTH YEAR THE PROGRAMME WAS WERE TESTED IN PROGRAMME TO COMPLETED WITH THE NORWICH POSTCODE THE WHOLE RECODING OF NORWICH COUNTRY BEGAN LDNO 1 THE COMBINATION OF LETTERS AND NUMBERS WAS CHOSEN BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER A MIXTURE OF NUMBERS AND LETTERS MORE EASILY THAN A LIST OF NUMBER. IT GIVES MORE CODE COMBINATIONS. SAN TAI SAN TA1 SAN TA1 FATHER CHRISTMAS HAS HIS OWN POSTCODE - SAN TA1. LETTERS SENT TO THIS POSTCODE DO ARRIMVE! REMEMBER WHEN A STAMP WAS ONLY 3p? 62p THE COST OF A 1ST CLASS STAMP IN THE UK HAS RISEN FROM 3 PENCE IN 1971 TO 62 PENCE IN 2014 32p 20p Зр 10p 1971 1979 1989 2006 2014 Sources: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/mail www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-mail/10170886/Key-dates-in-Royal-Mail-history www.postcodearea.co.uk/facts/fun-facts/ www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-Bizarre-postcode-facts/story-20922407-detail/story www.howmuchisastamp.co.uk/ bakergoodchild bakergoodchild.co.uk