Royal Mail

Royal Mail is a postal service company in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. It was established as early as 1516. The British Government formerly owned it and since 2013 own 30% of it.

The Universal Service Obligation says the company must deliver letters to all 32 million UK addresses six days a week, Monday to Saturday. It has put up the price of postage stamps because the number sent has dropped. They say the network was built for 20 billion letters but is now only delivering seven billion. In 2024 people got two letters a week on average. It lost £419 million in 2023.

Royal Mail Media

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  The Louth-London Royal Mail, by Charles Cooper Henderson, 1820

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  Edinburgh and London Royal Mail, by Jacques-Laurent Agasse

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  Lower Edmonton Royal Mail sorting office, in London

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  Royal Mail Post Office Regulations handbill giving details of the Uniform Penny Post, dated 7 January 1840

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  London's largest sorting office, Mount Pleasant

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  A Royal Mail Peugeot Partner van, seen in Wymondham in 2021

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  Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre, where mail entering and leaving the United Kingdom is sorted

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  Automated post sorting machine

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  Royal Mail postman with bicycle in Ilminster

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  North West Midlands Mail Centre

Related pages

• Mail
• Royal Mail Ship

Other websites

• 16x16px Media related to Royal Mail at Wikimedia Commons
• royalmailgroup.com