500 years of Royal Mail |

About
- Gallery themes
Gallery
Calendar
Features
Videos

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

Most Viewed

You might also like...

View all

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

Features

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

Most read

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

500 years of postal history in 500 items

View gallery

The origins of
Royal Mail

Read more

2016 – a year of
celebration

View calendar

Watch 500 years
of history

View the video

Back to top

Privacy

© 2016 Royal Mail

Newsletter

Enter your email address to recieve updates about future collection releases.

First Name*

Last Name*

Email Address*

Email Permission