1st July 2006
Jersey Post International is founded
Jersey Post has been through many incarnations over the years. It was established in 1969 when the Crown dependencies were authorised to set up their own postal services, separate from the British mainland. Yet, despite this independence, Jersey (and its neighbouring Channel Islands) use postcodes taken from the mainland postcode network.
However, it was not until 2006 that Jersey Post International Limited came into being when the States of Jersey registered the company on 1 July. By transferring mail services to a limited company rather than running them through a state-run operation, they could be opened to competition.
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Other events that occured in July
Bergerac creator Robert Banks Stewart is born
- Edinburgh-born screenwriter and producer Robert Banks Stewart devised the Jersey-set BBC police drama, Bergerac.
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Channel Television switches to colour
- Channel Television switched from black and white to colour broadcasts in 1976, with a party in a tent beside its transmitter.
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Jersey bailiff who helped organise the St Malo evacuation is born
- Sir Robert Hugh Le Masurier was born in Jersey and would rise to become one of the island’s youngest ever bailiffs.
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Jersey’s Theatre Royal burns down
- Jersey lost its theatre on the morning of 31 July 1863. It was discovered ablaze at 4am and, by 9am, nothing was left of the £5000 building.
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