Red Star Parcels [SEP] parent company
Red Star Parcels
Red Star Parcels which is different from Red Star Services Limited was a service which used passenger trains for transporting parcels between passenger railway stations throughout the United Kingdom, owned and operated by British Rail. It was introduced experimentally on 1 April 1963. Senders could despatch their consignments to selected stations at which the parcels were collected by the recipient. 
The service used scheduled trains, and as such, was one of the fastest methods of transporting a package long distances around the country.
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Royal Mail was started in 1883, though parcel services operated by the railway companies, later Red Star Parcels and British Road Services, were also heavily used for many decades. Royal Mail was separated into three divisions in 1986, and in August 1990, Royal Mail Parcels was rebranded as Parcelforce.
In July 1992, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Michael Heseltine, proposed a privatisation of the Parcelforce business. He argued that the company provided most of its services to businesses rather than individuals, and that the