Jersey Post

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Jersey Post is the licensed universal service provider of mail service for the bailiwick of Jersey.

1 History
2 Current status
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Jersey Post was established (as the Committee for Postal Administration) by the Post Office (Jersey) Law 1969,^[1] in 1969 as a result of an Order in Council which enabled the Crown dependencies to establish independent postal services. Consequently, UK postage stamps ceased to be valid in the Crown dependencies. The Bailiwicks had previously produced stamps and operated independent postal systems during the Occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945.

In the early 1990s the JE postcode area was established as a subset of the UK's postcode system. Previously, Jersey did not have postcodes (despite an unsuccessful experiment using delivery round numbers).

Jersey Post Limited was incorporated as a Limited Liability Company by the States of Jersey on 1 July 2006 when the Postal Services (Jersey) Law 2005 ^[2] came fully into force allowing competition in this sector for the first time. It is licensed by the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority^[3] as a Class II postal operator and, as such, is designated to hold Significant Market power and thus is liable for the universal service on the Island.

Jersey Post has an established and active Philatelic bureau which issues new designs on a regular basis.

[edit] Current status

Jersey Post offers free webmail and, unusually, POP3 mail services called JerseyMail.

Jersey Post entered other markets while still a States department. These include Promail, its mailing house set up in 1996, and Offshore Solutions, its fulfillment service. Promail provides a high-class bulk mail service for the offshore financial community. In 2007 its fulfillment service was affected by changes in States policy and as a consequence it decided to withdraw from this market with the potential loss of over 60 jobs unless a private buyer can be found.

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 internationally.

Jersey Post is member of the Small European Postal Administration Cooperation, which is an organisation that represents small post offices like Jersey Post and Guernsey Post in Europe.