isle of man post office type government owned traded as isle of man post industry postal service founded 5 july 1973 1973 07 05 headquarters douglas isle of man area served isle of man united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland worldwide key people graham cregeen mhk chairman juan turner mlc vice chairman 1 services postal parcel delivery collecting owner isle of man government website www.iompost.com the isle of man post office at spring stampex 2016 . an isle of man post office employee with a sheet of stamps issued in 2015 to mark the 175th anniversary of the issue of the penny black . the isle of man post office manx oik postagh ellan vannin which formerly used the trading name isle of man post operates postal collection ancillary mail services philatelic goods and delivery services and post office counter services on the isle of man . contents 1 history 1.1 telecommunications 2 stamps 3 postal rates 4 post offices 5 chairmen 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit the isle of man s postal service was originally operated by the united kingdom s general post office with a daily postal connection with the uk since 1879 . in 1966 the uk government commenced planning to convert the general post office into a public corporation and as part of this process offered each of the crown dependencies the opportunity to assume control of the operations of the gpo on their territories . on 18 october 1968 tynwald decided that they did not wish to take up the offer but provision was made in the post office act 1969 nonetheless . in the channel islands the authorities did accept the offer and postal activities of the gpo were transferred in october 1969 to form jersey post and guernsey post . the gpo had not provided any telecommunications services in the channel islands since the 1920s . in 1972 following negotiations by tynwald to leave the island s telephone system with the gpo it was agreed that the isle of man would after all take over control of the insular postal administration . as a result the isle of man post office authority was formed and took over the postal assets and functions of the post office on 5 july 1973 . the monies paid for the assets of the post office 148 624 were recouped within the first year from the surpluses generated by the authority . it was reconstituted as a statutory board and renamed the isle of man post office under the post office act 1993 . telecommunications edit telecommunications remained the responsibility of the british post office until 1981 when british telecom was created . in 1987 telecommunications were transferred to the local company manx telecom which was initially a wholly owned subsidiary of bt but became a subsidiary of o2 . stamps edit main article postage stamps and postal history of the isle of man stamps marked with the name of the isle of man were first issued in 1971 ; the first issue was a variant of the machin design . since 1973 only manx stamps have been valid on the island and manx stamps are not valid for postage in the uk or elsewhere . isle of man stamps have since become popular with philatelists . postal rates edit when sending mail to the island from elsewhere the isle of man is treated as though it were part of the united kingdom and mail from the uk continues to be charged at royal mail s uk inland rates . however postcodes were not introduced in the isle of man until 1993 when the island was postcoded as the im postcode area as an extension of the united kingdom postcode system . 2 mail sent from the island to the uk is flown across the irish sea and enters the first class stream of the royal mail for next day delivery . 3 the isle of man post office is a member of the small european postal administration cooperation . post offices edit the isle of man post office has crown offices at douglas and ramsey as well as a number of sub post offices . chairmen edit charles faragher 1984 86 bernie may 1986 88 norman butler 1988 91 david cretney 1992 96 alex downie 1997 99 john shimmin 1999 2003 edgar quine 2003 04 pamela crowe mlc 2004 08 alan crowe mlc 2008 11 geoff corkish mhk 2011 2014 graham cregeen mhk 2014 present see also edit communications on the isle of man country definitives postage stamps and postal history of the isle of man references edit meet the team . isle of man post office . retrieved 28 june 2014 . written answer 87341 house of commons hansard london 17 december 2002 column 739w . delivery standards . isle of man post office . retrieved 28 june 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to isle of man post office . official website v t e postal administrations of europe land islands albania andorra armenia austria azerbaijan bosnia and herzegovina bh po ta hrvatska po ta mostar po te srpske belarus belgium bulgaria croatia cyprus czech republic denmark estonia faroe islands finland france georgia germany gibraltar greece greenland guernsey hungary iceland ireland isle of man italy jersey kosovo latvia liechtenstein lithuania luxembourg macedonia malta moldova monaco montenegro netherlands norway poland portugal romania russia san marino serbia slovakia slovenia spain sweden switzerland turkey united kingdom ukraine vatican city private postal services of europe bring citymail deutsche post pin group uk mail retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title isle of man post office & oldid 743245362 categories companies of the isle of mancommunications in the isle of manpostal organisationspostal system of the united kingdom1973 establishments in the isle of manmembers of the small european postal administration cooperationhidden categories articles containing manx language textcommons category with local link different than on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 19 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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