Royal Mail

Royal Mail is the national postal service in the United Kingdom. Historically, the Royal Mail was a government department, but it became a nationalised industry in 1969. The Royal Mail was responsible for the telephone service in the UK until BT was demerged in 1981.

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Postal service - United Kingdom - Government department - Nationalised - 1969 - Telephone - BT

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As of 2005, Royal Mail Group plc is a public limited company with around 212,000 employees. Notwithstanding the prevailing political atmosphere in the 1980s and 1990s, which led to the privatisation of former publicly-owned business sectors such as The Stationery Office, British Gas and British Telecom, the core of the Post Office remains in public ownership, with the company being wholly owned by the British Government.

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2005 - Public limited company - 1980s - 1990s - Privatisation - The Stationery Office - British Gas - British Telecom - British Government

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Royal Mail remains responsible for the universal mail collection and delivery service in the UK. Letters are deposited in a pillar or wall box, or taken to a post office. They may also be collected, in bulk, from businesses, by arrangement.

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Pillar - Wall box - Post office

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Daily deliveries (not Sunday) are made to addresses throughout the UK, from Shetland to Cornwall, and the same prices are charged however remote the sender or recipient. Royal Mail also operates the national network of local post offices through Post Office Limited.

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Shetland - Cornwall - Post Office Limited

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