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 byelection was held due to the death of the incumbent Conservative MP, Kingsley Wood.
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