when did royal mail and post office split
Royal Mail For most of its history, Royal Mail has been a public service, operating as a government department or public corporation. However, following the Postal Services Act 2011,[3][4] a majority of the shares in Royal Mail were floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. The UK government initially retained a 30% stake in Royal Mail,[5] but sold its remaining shares in 2015, ending 499 years of public ownership.[6] It is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.