• The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distributions Services...
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    in the U.K., the Royal Mail delivers the post, while in North America both the U.S. Postal Service and Canada Post deliver the mail. The term email, short...
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    Royal Mail Ship (sometimes Steam-ship or Steamer), usually seen in its abbreviated form RMS, is the ship prefix used for seagoing vessels that carry mail...
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  • functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the operating name of the Post Office Department of the Canadian...
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    International Distributions Services plc (formerly Royal Mail Limited and Royal Mail plc) is a British company providing postal and courier services....
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    first British transatlantic steamship mail contract, and the next year formed the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company in Glasgow with...
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  • Postal Service's First Class Mail, it is generally for a period of one year. British Royal Mail provides a service called Mail Redirection, enabling redirection...
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    of cargo. Under the designation of Royal Mail Ship (RMS), Titanic carried mail under contract with the Royal Mail (and also for the United States Post...
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    The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen. The line's motto was Per Mare Ubique...
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  • British business executive, who has been the chief executive (CEO) of Royal Mail since January 2021. Thompson's appointment as CEO was announced on 11...
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    carrier-route delivery to their physical addresses. In the United Kingdom, Royal Mail PO boxes are often little more than pigeon-holes in the secure section...
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    The Royal Mail Case or R v Kylsant & Otrs was a noted English criminal case in 1931. The director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Lord Kylsant...
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    A Royal Mail rubber band is a small red elastic loop used by the postal delivery service in the United Kingdom. In the course of its work, the Royal Mail...
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    of Britannic, the third ship of the class. At the subsequent inquiry the Royal Navy blamed Olympic for the incident, alleging that her large displacement...
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    October 1959 and 1974, having been devised by the General Post Office (Royal Mail). A full postcode is known as a "postcode unit" and designates an area...
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  • Vesa's shareholding in Royal Mail (owned by parent company International Distributions Services). In April 2024, the owner of Royal Mail, International Distribution...
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    In modern heraldry, a royal cypher is a monogram or monogram-like device of a country's reigning sovereign, typically consisting of the initials of the...
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    Express mail is an expedited mail delivery service for which the customer pays a premium for faster delivery. Express mail is a service for domestic and...
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    Registered mail is a postal service in many countries which allows the sender proof of mailing via a receipt and, upon request, electronic verification...
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    Letter (message) (redirect from Letter mail)
    November 1919. It had taken 89 years to be delivered by the Royal Mail. However, Royal Mail denied this, saying that it would be impossible for a letter...
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  • delivers mail to local Royal Mail sorting offices for last mile delivery through downstream access. UK Mail competes primarily with Royal Mail and Whistl...
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    one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. Until 1996, Royal Mail required counties to be included in addresses, except for 110 of the larger...
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    substitute for "mailman" soon after women began performing the job. In the Royal Mail, the official name changed from "letter carrier" to "postman" in 1883...
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    Scotland instead of the Royal Cypher for Elizabeth II. Private boxes emptied by Royal Mail do not have to carry a cypher. Royal Mail post boxes manufactured...
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    Cardiff Mail Centre (also known as Penarth Road Sorting Office) is the main headquarters and sorting office for Royal Mail in Cardiff, Wales, and one of...
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    known as staging. Some familiar images of the stagecoach are that of a Royal Mail coach passing through a turnpike gate, a Dickensian passenger coach covered...
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    of sorting and delivering mail, England was divided into postal counties until 1996; they were then abandoned by Royal Mail in favour of postcodes. Most...
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    Ford-Utilimaster FFV Mail truck USPS Mail Delivery Electric Truck at CES 2022. Electric mail van from Postnord in Ystad / Sweden 2021. A Royal Mail van seen in...
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    jet aircraft used by the Royal Mail, but it also operated many passenger charter flights and airline sub-services. As the mail contract grew in size, the...
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  • Kingdom is a tabulation of the postcode areas used by Royal Mail for the purposes of directing mail within the United Kingdom. The postcode area is the...
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