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no idea what those acronyms mean. X BT? IB? SD? WTF?
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
no idea what those acronyms mean. X BT? IB? SD? WTF?
- skissane 6y agoX = ex-, as in formerly BT = British Telecom. British telco, which used to be part of the government-owned Post Office, but was separated from it in 1981 and then privatised in 1984. The delivery services part of the Post Office (Royal Mail) was separately privatised in 2013; but the retail post office business (Post Office Ltd) remains under full government ownership, albeit most of the individual post offices are privately run by franchisees – and it was these franchisees who were being prosecuted IB = Investigation Branch – https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/the-post-office-investigation-branch/ https://www.postalmuseum.org/blog/the-post-office-investigat... SD = Security Division