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A tribute to Royal Mail’s design heritage

25 November 2016 by Royal Mail

Letters of Our Lives gallery
Two of the UK's oldest organisations welcome new master
Royal reception
Royal Mail and the TS Royalist
International airmail
Royal Mail marks farewell voyage of RMS St Helena

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1500s Sir Brian Tuke
1800s The first postage stamp; Queen Victoria 1d black – the Penny Black (1840)
1600s Launch of Royal Mail’s Investigation Department
1800s Postboxes: the start of the legend
1800s The UK’s oldest working post boxes
1900s Intelligent letter sorting machines (ILSMs)
1800s Badge of Office
1800s Use of the Royal cypher on post boxes

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A tribute to Royal Mail’s design heritage
Letters of Our Lives gallery
Two of the UK's oldest organisations welcome new master

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Letters of our lives
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By land, sea and air: 500 years of delivering the mail

500 years of postal history in 500 items

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