The Penny Post is any one of several postal systems in which normal letters could be sent for one penny. Five such schemes existed in the United Kingdom...
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The Uniform Penny Post was a component of the comprehensive reform of the Royal Mail, the UK's official postal service, that took place in the 19th century...
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Royal Mail (redirect from Penny Post Credit Union)
introduced in 1852 (12 years after the first postage stamp, Penny Black), and other post boxes, many of which bear the royal cypher of the reigning monarch...
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London Penny Post was a premier postal system whose function was to deliver mail within London and its immediate suburbs for the modest sum of one penny. The...
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Mauritius "Post Office" stamps were issued by the British Colony Mauritius in September 1847, in two denominations: an orange-red one penny (1d) and a...
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The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1840 but...
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The Goulburn Evening Penny Post was an English-language newspaper published in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia from 1870 until 1957. At various times...
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obliged the London Penny Post to come under the authority of the Postmaster General. Although now part of the GPO, the London Penny Post continued to operate...
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William Dockwra (section The Penny Post)
English merchant who along with his partner Robert Murray created the first Penny Post in London in 1680. In latter 17th century London there was no official...
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Postmark (redirect from Post marks)
London Penny Post, a postal system that delivered mailed items within the city of London. The postmarks bore the initial of the particular post office...
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