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You can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Rarely out of the news, Royal Mail has been delivering the post to British doorsteps since 1516. Constantly in a battle with growing private competition, it caused uproar by raising first class stamp prices from 46p to 60p, and a second class stamp to 50p from 36p.