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    The General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East) was the main post office for London between 1829 and 1910, the headquarters...
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    The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the...
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    The Post Office Railway, known since 1987 as Mail Rail, is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the...
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    General Post Office (GPO; Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist) is the former headquarters of An Post — the Irish Post Office. It remains its registered office...
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  • Former General Post Office, Colombo Kandy General Post Office General Post Office (Bangkok) General Post Office, Edinburgh General Post Office, London General...
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    The General Post Office (abbreviation GPO, commonly known as the Sydney GPO) is a heritage-listed landmark building located in Martin Place, Sydney, New...
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    London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General...
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    recruits from civil servants based in London. There were sufficient recruits from the GPO staff to form a Post Office company, which was placed under Captain...
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    A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and...
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    The General Post Office is a heritage landmark building in Perth, Western Australia. Located on the western side of Forrest Place in the city's central...
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  • The British Post Office scandal, also called the Horizon IT scandal, involved the Post Office pursuing thousands of innocent subpostmasters for apparent...
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    building, the General Post Office, which was built in Classical Revival style on F Street NW. It was used as the city's main General Post Office until 1914...
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    postmaster general, William T. Barry, to sit as a member of the Cabinet in 1829. The Post Office Act of 1872 (17 Stat. 283) elevated the Post Office Department...
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    void. 1660 saw the establishment of the General Letter Office, which would later become the General Post Office (GPO). A similar position evolved in the...
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  • 1517, he was appointed to the office of 'Governor of the King's Posts', a precursor to the office of Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, by Henry...
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    The Post Office Research Station was first established as a separate section of the General Post Office in 1909. In 1921, the Research Station moved to...
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    Post Office branches, along with the Royal Mail delivery service, were formerly part of the General Post Office and, after the passage of the Post Office...
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  • As a government department, the New Zealand Post Office had as its political head the Postmaster General, who was a member of Cabinet, and, when it was...
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    declared itself a republic and the office of governor-general was abolished. Some of the first holders of the post were members of the British royal family...
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    BT Tower (redirect from Post Office Tower)
    the General Post Office (GPO). Its primary purpose was to support the microwave aerials then used to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the...
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  • Royal Mail (redirect from Post Office mail)
    uk. Retrieved 23 May 2020. Third Report of the Postmaster General on the Post Office. London: HMSO. 1857. p. 41. Osmańczyk, Edmund Jan; Mango, Anthony...
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  • Regulating Act of 1773 created the office with the title of Governor-General of Presidency of Fort William, or Governor-General of Bengal to be appointed by...
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    first official carriage of mail by rail was by the United Kingdom's General Post Office in November 1830, using adapted railway carriages on the Liverpool...
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    from the General Post Office (GPO) as the Army Postmaster to accompany his expedition to Helder. Thomas Reynolds, as the British Post Office Agent in...
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    A Travelling Post Office (TPO) was a type of mail train used in Great Britain and Ireland where the post was sorted en route, used from 1830 to 1996,...
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    Launceston Post Office was built on the former site of the Royal Olympic Theatre, which was part of the London Tavern. Prior to this, the post office operated...
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  • (French Post Office) 1899–1931 Zanzibar (French Post Office) 1889–1904 Ottoman Empire (French Post Offices) 1885–1923 Beirut (French Post Office) 1905 only...
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    romanization system called the Nanking syllabary. The Imperial Maritime Customs Post Office would cancel postage with a stamp that gave the city of origin in Latin...
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    St. Martin's Le Grand (category Streets in the City of London)
    Aldersgate Ward of the City of London when the site was earmarked for a new General Post Office. The General Post Office (GPO) established its national...
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    'War Office' is also given to the former home of the department, located at the junction of Horse Guards Avenue and Whitehall in central London. The landmark...
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