~pDSABfHg\EBI0MANY BELIEVE THE FIRST POSTAL SYSTEM ORIGINATED IN PERSIA AROUND 5OOBC. THE GREEKHISTORIAN HERODOTUS WROTE: "IT IS SAID THAT AS MANY DAYS AS THERE ARE IN THE WHOLE

JOURNEY S0 MANY ARE THE MEN AND HORSES THAT STAND ALONG THE ROAD, EACH HORSE ANDMAN AT THE INTERVAL OF A DAY 8 JOURNEY; AND THESE ARE STAYED NEITHER BY SNOW NOR RAINNOR HEAT NOR DARKNESS FROM ACCOMPLISHING THEIR APPOINTED COURSE WITH ALL SPEED".

, THE RRST ADHESIVE POSTAGE STAMR THE PENNY BLACK, WAS RELEASED NATIONALLY

AFTER 350 YEARS OF TRADITION, FWITHIN THE POSTAL SERVICE W

OPENED UP THE MARKET THREE YEAF

POSTCODESIN THE UK

ADDRESSEs INTHE UK

THE FIRST POSTCODESWERE TESTED IN

NORWICH

THE EIGHTH YEARPROGRAMME TO

POSTCODE THE WHOLECOUNTRY BEGAN

PosTCoDEs AVAILABLEUNDER ROYAL MAI8

ALPHA-NUMERIC SYSTEM

THE PROGRAMME WASCOMPLETED WITH THE

RECODING OF NORWICH

. .