15th October 1901 - Walt Disney was born. 2013 - The Royal Mail was privatised.

16th September  1968 - Royal Mail, in the UK, began the two-tier postal system of first and second class stamps.

According to the Royal Mail in the UK, a letter to Mars would require 18,416 first-class stamps. (Royal Mail contacted NASA after 5-year-old Oliver Giddings asked the Royal Mail how much it would cost to post a letter to the red planet. The answer came back with a cost of £11,602.25  US$18,003.40. Of course Royal […]