By 1900, he was reckoned to have walked over 80,000 miles in the service of the Post Office.
A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s/early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.
In 1868, as part of the Volunteer Movement, John Lowther du Plat Taylor, Private Secretary to the Postmaster General, raised the 49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Corps (Post Office Rifles) from GPO employees, who had been either members of the 21st Middlesex Rifles Volunteer Corps (Civil Service Rifles) or special constables enrolled to combat against Fenian attacks on London in 1867/68.
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For the more recent history of the postal system in the United Kingdom, see the article Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd.
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As part of the Postal Services Act 2000, the businesses of the Post Office were transferred in 2001 to a public limited company, Consignia plc, which was quickly renamed Royal Mail Holdings plc.
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The postal service was known as the Royal Mail because it was built on the distribution system for royal and government documents.
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The Royal Mail (which, following its legalization, held a nominal monopoly on such delivery services) moved its headquarters to Lombard Street in the City in 1678 to better curtail such practices.
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Sergeant Alfred Joseph Knight was awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in the Battle of Wurst Farm Ridge in September 1917.
The Westin hotel and Macquarie Bank office towers stand in the former courtyard, now converted into an atrium.
The 2001 adaptation undid some of the interior changes made in 1958, when luxurious details, such as majolica-decorated arches, were covered and thus hidden from view.
Hicks' paintings were often of subjects that no other artists attempted, such as the General Post Office and Billingsgate Fish Market.
Sir Reginald Arthur Egerton, another son of the aforementioned Major-General Caledon Richard Egerton (d. 1930), was Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General, Surveyor to the General Post Office, London, and Secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin.
In 1894, he began working in a clerical position for the General Post Office in Britain.
His first cabinet post was Postmaster General, in which he transformed the British Post Office from a bureaucracy to a business.
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As minister in charge of the General Post Office (GPO), Wood inherited an old-fashioned organisation, not equipped to meet the needs of the 1930s.
The site of Harison's villa is now just south of the present General Post Office.
In 1836, He was appointed as joint secretary to the General Post Office, where he strongly opposed the introduction of the penny post, a plan championed by Rowland Hill to charge a fixed price for postage (as is now the normal practice in most of the world).
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He resigned his position with the General Post Office in 1870 to take up a new appointment as the Secretary and General Manager of the East and West India Docks Company (E&WIDC), at the time the largest docking operation in the world.
The radiotelephone signal from Radio Central was received by the British General Post Office's receiver facility in Cupar, Scotland.
The Universal Postal Union Collection is a deposit by the General Post Office (GPO) in the United Kingdom, under section 4 of the Public Records Act, of its duplicate Universal Postal Union collection of 93,448 stamps, covering the period from 1908.