Jersey Post
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Jersey Post is the official state-owned mail service for the island of Jersey. It covers the postcode area JE, which was only established in the early 1990s. Previously, Jersey, along with Guernsey and the Isle of Man, did not have postcodes at all.
[edit] History
Jersey Post was established, along with Guernsey Post, in 1969 when the British Government by Order in Council enabled the Crown Dependencies to create separate postal services within the British postal system. Consequently, UK postage stamps ceased to be valid in the Crown Dependencies.
[edit] Current status
In the last few years, people have criticised the high price of postage (34 pence for the local service and 37p for UK service compared with 32p on the UK mainland to all of the UK and the Islands, although it cost 49p for up to 100g on the mainland) and poor service that Jersey Post have given. However, there have never been any plans for privatization of Jersey Post, nor for opening up the sector to competition. Jersey Post has come to the modern age with a free webmail service called JerseyMail.
In 2006 Jersey Post added a new premium service (FedEx Express) which Jersey Post calls J express, It was created for its key high-quality business services, aimed to increase awareness of the benefits J express can bring to companies who operate in the Island and a more secure way to send items internationaly.
