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This is a list of post towns in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies, sorted by the postcode area (the first part of the outward code of a postcode). Postcode area
Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election: Sir Keir Starmer becomes the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following a landslide victory for Labour in the general election. [567] [568] The Conservatives are reduced to just 121 seats, the lowest number of MPs in their 190-year history.
Pages in category "Postcode areas of the United Kingdom" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The GMB wants workers to be paid £15 per hour rather than the current £10.50. Amazon does not recognise the union, and so has refused to enter into negotiations with its representatives. [328] On 16 April, around 600 Amazon workers based at Coventry and belonging to the GMB trade union began a three-day strike over pay. [329]
The postal history of the United Kingdom is notable in at least two respects: first, for the introduction of postage stamps in 1840, and secondly for the establishment of an efficient postal system throughout the British Empire, laying the foundation of many national systems still in existence today. As the originator of postage stamps, the UK ...
Germany introduced postal codes on 25 July 1941, in the form of a two-digit system that was applied initially for the parcel service and later for all mail deliveries. This system was replaced in 1962 in West Germany by a four-digit system; three years later East Germany followed with its own four-digit system.
In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, which is led by a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [1]
Between 1841 and 1997, Hong Kong was a Crown Colony of the United Kingdom, and the colonial government-established postal service, the Hongkong Post, was retained after the 1997 handover. As such, postal service remained and remains separate from the rest of the PRC under the one country, two systems principle.