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Royal Mail Stamps - London Underground - 1863

Royal Mail Issues Tube-Themed Stamps

Red-letter day for the Tube.

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Find London’s Golden Post Boxes

Map to locate medal winners’ celebratory letter receptacles.

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Team GB Gold Medallists To Star On Next Day Olympic Stamps

Royal Mail to to get special stamps out by the following lunchtime (sponsored post).

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The Friday Photos: London Post Boxes

When did you last write a letter?

A parade of post boxes, stand to attention like mismatched soldiers.

A Tour Of The British Postal Museum Store

See capsules from a forgotten tube system, ancient post boxes and much more besides.

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Get Ready For 2012 Stamps Unveiled To Mark One Year To Go

A new set of 10 Olympic stamps goes on sale on Wednesday

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Extra, Extra

Mid week news snippets. Including the daily Royal Wedding trivia.

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Extra, Extra

Tuesday’s leftover news, including the daily Royal Wedding snippet.

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Royal Mail Tries to be Helpful

Is the Royal Mail finally wising up to the fact that they are not one of the UK’s best-loved institutions? Has the marketing department had a quiet word in their shell-like? (We know that they have a marketing department: it’s called Postman Pat.) Or is …

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Royal Mail May Axe Nine Elms Mail Centre

The low, bunker-like Royal Mail sorting centre in Nine Elms, and another at Twelvetrees Crescent (what is it with the post office and dendronumerology?) in Bow Locks, could be axed as part of the postal service’s “modernising” agenda — yes, the same one that resulted …

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Mail Arrives 16 Years Late In Crystal Palace

Remember those halcyon days when the mail arrived before you left for school or work? If you live at certain addresses in Crystal Palace, do you remember when it arrived at all? Royal Mail have been delivering some 2,000 letters – some posted as far …