What did The General Post Office do at Post Office Court?

General Post Office Stone Standing in Post Office Court, you're positioned at the beating heart of British postal history for over 150 years—the very address where the General Post Office established itself on Lady Day in 1678, having outgrown its cramped quarters on Bishopsgate Street. Within these walls, the institution that would come to define communication across the British Empire processed millions of letters, developing the systems and infrastructure that transformed mail delivery from a haphazard affair into an organized national service.

Here, amid the bustling streets of the City of London, postal workers sorted correspondence, administrators plotted expansion routes, and the foundations were laid for what would eventually evolve into the world's first modern postal system. When the General Post Office finally departed for its grand new building at St. Martin's Le Grand on 23rd September 1829, it left behind 151 years of accumulated significance—this modest court had been the nerve center through which the voices of a nation once traveled, making this forgotten corner of London ground zero for the revolution in how Britain communicated with itself.

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