1. Address What it usually means: The particulars of where a person lives or where an organisation is situated.What it means to celebrities: An OTT Oscar’s acceptance speech or similar that is bound to draw gasps from the watching crowd.   2. Correspondence www.studentbeans.com What it usually means: A civilised exchanged of letters between two people.What it means to celebrities: An all out, back and forth Twitter spat between two enraged A-listers.   3. Drop offs http://picsforfun.blogspot.co.uk/ What it usually means: A series of pre-arranged parcel deliveries.Wha... [More]

It was a gorgeous Monday morning, almost the start of Summer. Perfect condition to film our first ever driver interview video. The choice of location was at the ipostparcels Slough depot - being one of the busiest depot with plenty of delivery vans rushing out for their morning shift. Camera set up, microphone plugged in and it was time to start the filming. Oh, not forgetting our star special guest - Parcel Pete.  The filming went smoothly, took a few takes but we got there in the end. So without any further delay, here is the edited final video of our driver interview:

As we open our morning post we rarely give thought to the host of weird and wonderful facts associated with this most traditional of communication methods. While we’re likely to remember peculiar bits of postal trivia from recent history – think the local post-boxes posted gold in honour of medal-winning Olympians – we may need to cast our postal bags a bit further when it comes to getting a fully potted history of postage from around the globe. Here are some quirky postal facts from around the world that are bound to deliver a few laughs. USA, 1920 – Parents craving a ... [More]

Few things are more stressful in the process of moving than having to pack up all your not-so-uniformly shaped belongings into uniformly shaped cardboard boxes. By the time you’ve sorted through piles of dusty items retrieved from the attic, grappled with bubble wrap and flustered over the fact the colander’s been placed in the bedroom box it’s almost time to go. This is why a little advice can go a long way when it comes to the practical details of upping sticks. And where better to turn to than YouTube? Here are some of the most comical ‘how to pack a box’ video... [More]

The 2014 FIFA World Cup is officially underway and as anticipation for the upcoming games reaches fever pitch, fans of the beautiful game will be descending on some of Brazil’s hottest postcodes. Here are the football-focused Brazil locations that fans are most likely to be traversing in the upcoming weeks and months. 08295-005 – Arena de São Paulo Also known as the Arena Corinthians this São Paulo venue will play host to a number of key fixtures for World Cup. The opening match in group A - Brazil v Croatia – took place here on June 12th and the venue will also... [More]

  Summer is almost upon us, as the seasons start to deliver warmer days our letterboxes are set to see deliveries of a different kind. Here are just some of the pieces of post that are most likely to greet us as we return from being out and about in the summer sun. 1.Wedding invites Lovebirds love nothing more than exchanging vows under the glorious rays of summer sunshine. And while rain is supposedly an omen of a happy marriage, a summer wedding is guaranteed to heat things up. 2.Exam results Pupils the length and breadth of the country are crossing their fingers and hoping for the bes... [More]

There are few joys in life quite so sweet asreceiving an unexpected parcel in the post. This is largelydown to the fact that most of us only receive parcels we order ourselves, but that’s by the by. Some of the most interesting items ever to be delivered would today be considered violations of almost every regulation you can think of. But then,in the early days of the postal service things were new, exciting and not quite so clear cut.  In fact, all the rules that we take for granted today hadn’t even been conceived in the early days of the postal service. Most are onlywith us... [More]

We’ve all returned home at one time or another with a present for someone special. Something that they will absolutely love and cherish, and crucially something that will least expect. The feeling of achievement usually lasts right up until the realisation that deciding what to get was the easy part. Packaging it up ready to post is where the real challenge starts! The basics To package oddly-shaped items there are basic essentials that are always needed – scissors, sticky tape and lots and lots of bubble wrap. If you’re lucky, the addition of an oversized cardboard box will ... [More]

It’s easy to take the postal service for granted, particularly in the UK where sending a parcel or receiving a package requires relatively little effort. It might cause a certain degree of surprise, then, that a professionally organised service has only been in existence for little over a hundred years. From horses to pigeons to motorcycles, delivery methods have evolved considerably since the days of the knee-high chimneysweep, let’s take a look. Horses In the past the quickest way to move a letter from place to place was via horseback messenger, with heavier items following close... [More]

Most of the time when we send something through the post it gets there when it's meant to, whether that's with next day delivery or takes much longer as part of an overseas journey However, there are plenty of tales about things going awry and getting lost in the system somewhere and not emerging until many years later. Postcards are the most common examples, such as the one sent from Egypt in 1954 that landed on its destination doormat in Britain 57 years later. 80-year-old Margaret Eastham picked up the black-and-white card delivered by the postman along with her usual mail and was stunned ... [More]