Jersey Post is the official state-owned mail service for the island of Jersey. It covers the postcode area JE, which was only established in the early 1990s. Previously, Jersey, along with Guernsey and the Isle of Man, did not have postcodes at all. A British pillar box The postal system is a system by which written documents typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages containing other matter, are delivered to destinations around the world. ... UK and Australian postal codes are known as postcodes. ...

History

Jersey Post was established in 1969 when the British Government by Order in Council enabled the Crown Dependencies the right to have separate postal services within the British postal system. Consequently, UK postage stamps ceased to be valid in the Crown Dependencies. 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... An Order-in-Council is a type of legislation in the United Kingdom and in the Commonwealth which is formally made in the name of the Queen by the Privy Council (Queen-in-Council), or the Governor-General or Governor by the Executive Council (Governor-General-in-Council, Governor-in... Crown dependencies are possessions of the British Crown, as opposed to overseas territories or colonies. ...

Current status

In the last few years, people have criticised the high price of postage (34p for UK service compared with 30p on the UK mainland, although it cost 42p for up to 100g on the mainland) and poor service that Jersey Post have given. However, there have never been any plans for privatization of Jersey Post, nor for opening up the sector to competition. Jersey Post has come to the modern age with a free webmail service called JerseyMail. Privatization (sometimes privatisation, denationalization, or, especially in India, disinvestment) is the process of transferring property, from public ownership to private ownership and/or transferring the management of a service or activity from the government to the private sector. ... Webmail is a web application that allows users to read and write e-mail using a web browser. ...

External link

• Jersey Post