Talk:Uniform Penny Post

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2005 edits

These lks from what is now penny postage may be about Hill's picture being on them, and perhaps are irrelevant here. Or are they from the period discussed?

• ==See also==
• Penny Black
• Penny Red
• Two pence blue
• VR official

--Jerzy·t 16:49, 2005 July 19 (UTC)

Sorry, don't understand where this text was cut from. I've restored the links as all are definitely relevant to Penny postage, being the first stamps of that system (as per their articles). JackyR 00:06, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit war

The postal authority that implemented the Uniform Penny Post was Royal Mail, a government department of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland not of the British Isles, which is merely a geographical term, and besides being totally inaccurate terminology is considered offensive by many Irish people. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is the proper and correct term to be used even if occasional sources use the term British Isles. Here is a perfectly correct and accurate online reference that could be used. If you want to change the term please bring it to an WP:AfD and stop the edit warring. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 03:05, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

> The postal authority that implemented the Uniform Penny Post was Royal Mail <

In fact, it was the General Post Office (GPO). The GPO's distribution system -- because it was built on that originally established for the delivery of royal and government documents -- was referred to as the Royal Mail, but the GPO itself (later simply The Post Office) has been officially called "Royal Mail", with "Post Office Limited" as one its operating divisions until 2007, only since 2002 (after a very brief period as "Consignia"). -- Picapica (talk) 09:56, 16 November 2009 (UTC)