A passport check-and-send service is available for passport applications, where the post office staff check that a passport application is filled in correctly and has an acceptable photograph accompanying it. Check-and-send service is not guaranteed service. The Post Office also offer a photocard driving licence renewal service. Microsoft pulled the Equipt plug in April 2009, just nine months after launching the offer. Additional recommendations from the Aldridge commission include the creation of a university-based “virtual space academy” that would train the next generation of space explorers and technicians, and the transformation of NASA’s nine space centers into federally funded research and development centers. Criminal Cases Review Commission as “the biggest single series of wrongful convictions in British legal history”. Maybe they showed up a few million years ago, checked out the tortoises and giant ferns and decided to move on? Essentially, the heliosphere is a giant cavity surrounded by this stuff. In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, we’ll examine what valuable resources miners could find on asteroids and discuss how a space mining operation could get those resources out! I still can’t believe that me and 9,999 beautiful women still aren’t living in one of these, only occasionally looking out the window to look down upon the scorched skin of a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested planet Earth.

Of course there’s till a long way to go before SLS is ready to jet off to Mars — or even Earth orbit for tests. It now orbits about 340 miles above the Earth. The find – made using the Hubble telescope – is significant because it means we could potentially explore Europa’s ocean and more easily look for “organic chemicals or even signs of life” that originated within it, without digging through miles of ice. Even though auroras are best seen at night, they are actually caused by the Sun. And that’s not even the weirdest thing about Mercury’s travel patterns. There are also “mobile post offices” using converted vans which travel between rural areas. Post Office Limited directly manages the remaining 1%, known as Crown post offices. Eighty-five Crown post offices were closed, 70 of which were sold to WHSmith. 2,500 sub-post offices closed between 2008 and 2009. Redundancy packages were provided from public funding (subpostmasters were paid over 20 months salary, roughly £65,000 each). In November 2010, the government committed £1.34 billion of funding up to 2015 to Post Office Limited to enable it to modernise the Post Office network. In November 2013, the government committed an additional £640 million of funding for 2015 to 2018 to allow Post Office Limited to complete its network modernisation.

In November 2024, the Post Office announced the planned closure of 115 post offices. A ten-year inter-business agreement was signed between Royal Mail and Post Office Limited to allow post offices to continue issuing stamps, and handling letters and parcels for Royal Mail. It was a business that faced significant challenges because it had an exclusive arrangement with the Royal Mail, and the Royal Mail itself was suffering from increasing competition in the parcels market and a declining letters market. Postage stamps (including commemorative stamps and other philatelic items) are sold, while applications for redirection of mail are accepted on behalf of Royal Mail. A number of bill payments can be accepted on behalf of a variety of organisations including utilities, local authorities and others. Although different services are available on behalf of different institutions, these may include cash withdrawals, paying in cash and cheques, and balance enquiries. Nigel Railton, previously CEO of Camelot UK, was appointed interim chair in May 2024 for a 12-month term. Perkins stood down as chair in July 2015 and was replaced in October of that year by Tim Parker, a businessman who had led and restructured a number of companies. The first chair of the board of the new company was Alice Perkins, who had for a time led human resources management in the Civil Service.

Sometimes these people remain as independent businesspersons, and sometimes they become employees of a larger company. In this way, hydroponic plants are not organic by the very strictest definitions, but may be considered organic in some areas and by some people. The majority of other branches (9,617 in total) were run either by franchise partners or by local subpostmasters (who may be members of the National Federation of SubPostmasters or the CWU Postmasters Branch); these are known as Agency post office branches. Technology has also created a demand for larger businesses to employ individuals who work from home. Technology has made this possible through email, the World-Wide Web, e-commerce, videoconferencing, remote desktop software, VPN, VLAN, webinar systems, and telephone connections by VOIP. Say, for example, we have a right triangle with a 30-degree angle, and whose longest side, or hypotenuse, is a length of 7. We can use our predefined right triangle relationships to figure out the side lengths of the triangle’s remaining two sides. The Post Office rolled out the ‘ParcelShop’ scheme in Summer 2019, allowing retail stores to accept Royal Mail Internet returns, in order to expand Post Office facilities.