Barbados Postal Service
An Act of Parliament in 1854, served to fully amalgamate the former UK founded Imperial Packet Agency and the Inland Post Office created specifically for local service.A legacy of the British Empire has been the use of some iconic historical pillar boxes (mailboxes) with the official cypher of the Barbadian monarch, although after political independence their further roll-out has slowed.By 1911 an estimated annual subsidy of £4 000 from the Imperial government was payable to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company specifically for the Barbados postal service.[3] In the early 1900s when scores of Barbadians emigrated to Cuba,[4] the United States and Panama (Afro-Panamanian), and again in the 1950s, when there was also large scale immigration but to England, the Post was the primary means of facilitating communication between the migrants and their families in Barbados.This office was located in a room under the Senate in the Parliament Buildings, and there all incoming and outgoing overseas mail, which showed no sign of being censored, was intercepted.The Barbados Philatelic Bureau within the Postal Service was established in 1968 for the purpose of promoting the sale of postage stamps in the very lucrative market worldwide.In 1971 therefore, a post of Assistant Postmaster General responsible for international postal affairs was established and Mr. Lloyd Weekes was appointed to the position on August 16, 1971.In 1984 the Barbados Government, for the first time, authorised the Postmaster General to sign the Acts of the Hamburg Congress “ad referendum” in addition to the Minister with responsibility for the postal services.At a cost of $16 million, the complex, which was designed by Barbadian architect Mervyn A. Awon initially, was awarded by contract to Sir Robert McAlpine Limited, a British company.
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