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This chronology highlights key developments in postal
services.
It covers -
Context is provided by the broader media, business and
technology timeline.
precursors
1635 King Charles I extends use of Royal Mail to public
1661 first UK postmark
1680 Dockwra's local post introduced in London
1840s revolution
1837 Rowland Hill's Post Office Reform: Its Importance
& Practicability
1840 Hill's uniform rate prepaid 'Penny Post' introduced
in England
1843 Switzerland and Brazil introduce 'Penny Post'
1847 US introduces postage stamps
1847 Mauritius introduces postage stamps
1849 France, Belgium and Bavaria introduce postage stamps
1861 launch of British Post Office Savings Bank
1863 US moves to single rate for letters
1863 Paris Postal Conference brings together 15 representatives
from throughout Europe and America
1867 New Zealand establishes postal savings system
1868 Canada establishes postal savings system
1868 UK Telegraph Act 1868 empowers Postmaster
General to "acquire, maintain and work electric telegraphs"
1870 Belgium establishes postal savings system
1873 Austria introduces postal bank
global networks
1874 Berne international conference
1875 establishment of 22 nation General Postal Union (GPU)
1875 Japan establishes postal savings bank
1878 GPU becomes International Postal Union
1881 Postal Orders introduced in UK
1882 Austria establishes world's first postal Giro money
transfer
1883 Austria launches post office savings bank
1901 federal Post & Telegraph Act 1901 in Australia
1906 Japan and Switzerland establish postal giro systems
1909 Germany introduces giro system
1909 UK Old age pensions paid from Post Office branches
1918 France establishes giro system
1920 Danish Post Office adopts giro system
1938 Germany launches post office savings bank as part
of Deutsche Reichspost, absorbs Österreichische Postsparkasse
1948 Universal Postal Union (UPU)
becomes agency of United Nations
1968 National Giro established in UK
1969 UK Post Office restructured from government department
to state-owned company
1972 UK National Giro becomes separate business within
Post Office corporation
1978 UK National Giro becomes National Girobank
age of corporatisation
1981 British Telecommunications Act splits UK Post Office
Corporation into two state owned enterprises the Post
Office (postal services and National Giro Bank) and British
Telecom (BT)
1986 Netherlands Postal Giro Service and National Savings
Bank separated from state-owned Postal & Telecommunications
Services to form Postbank NV
1989 Netherlands Postal & Telecommunications agency
corporatised as NV Koninklijke PTT Nederland (KPN) with
TPG Post BV and PTT Telecom BV arms
1990 Deutsches Postbank corporatised under German Postal
Services Restructuring Act
1990 1930 Alliance & Leicester Building Society buys
UK National Girobank
1991 Danish Post Office Giro privatised as Girobank
1996 Netherlands PTT Post acquires Australian logistics
group TNT
1998 Netherlands KPN split into KPN and TPG
1998 New Zealand Post established under Postal Services
Act 1998
1998 Switzerland's PTT restructured as Swiss Post and
as Swisscom
and privatisation
2001 UK Post Office becomes a plc
2003 Deutsche Post pays US$1bn for Airborne Express
2004 UK Royal Mail lose monopoly on bulk mailing
2005 Deutsche Post buys Exel for US$6.8bn
2006 UK Royal Mail loses monopoly on letter carriage
2006 Deutsche Post buys stake in document management company
Williams Lea (valuing Williams at £450m)
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