A Victorian hexagonal red post box. Traditionally UK post boxes carry the initials of the reigning monarch at the time of their installation: in this case VR for Victoria Regina.
In 1981 the British Telecommunications Act split the Post Office Corporation into two nationalised entities - the Post Office and British Telecom. British Telecom was later privatised.
In 2000 The Post Office renamed itself to Consignia to much ridicule. The British Government set up a postal regulator Postcomm and offered licences to private companies to deliver mail. In 2002 Consignia changed its name back to Royal Mail as Royal Mail Group plc with operating divisions of Royal Mail and Parcelforce dealing with the letter and parcel services respectively, and with Post Office Ltd as a wholly owned subsidiary which manages the nationwide network of post office branches.
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Customers deposit mail in red collection boxes for the Royal Mail to sort and deliver it. This one bears the monogram ER for Edward Rex or Edward VII.
1516: Royal Mail established by Henry VIII under Master of the Posts.
July 31, 1635: Royal Mail service first made available to the public by Charles I. Postage was paid by the recipient.
Consignia's conditions for a village poll to confirm the level of support for a change (their new requirement under the Code of Practice) are totally unreasonable.
Consignia refuses point blank to listen to all appeals to reason and is unfit to have management of the Postcode Address File which is no longer simply a postal delivery routing mechanism but a national data base.
Consignia now insists on a poll of all residents and businesses in the village, and furthermore on a 50% response rate (although initially they had stipulated 75%, subsequently reduced to 60%, and later to 50%).
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