So The UK is no more Its back to Great Britain

[zorgon]

So The UK is no more  Its back to Great Britain

Was looking to send a package to the UK today and found that the post office no longer has that listing. They have switched back to Great Britain

Before it was Zone 5  now it is Zone 3  Oddly enough it means an extra .25 cents for shipping

The United Kingdom may be an island nation, but it has one, huge open border with the European Union. ... The Republic of Ireland, which is an EU member state, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., haven't been united for almost 100 years.

Will Ireland follow Britain in leaving the European Union?
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/will-ireland-follow-britain-in-leaving-the-european-union

[astr0144]

Hi "Z",

I was not aware that was the case with the Post Office using UK  or GB /(which includes the 3 countries combined ..ie England Scotland Wales)...

I can only imagine maybe its to do with Brexit...or since then, although Im not sure if or when all that actually was too effect such changes..

or if the UK/ GB are still as they were until everything goes thru and is completed as there were suggestions that it may still be challenged to return to the EU or that it will take a few years before leaving the EU is official.

I am not sure how the UK may now relate to Ireland...but it may well still be a way for immigrants to get into the U.K thru Ireland..
and probably still is...  I don't think that I had thought about it..but it seems a valid point of further concern.

[zorgon]

HOW SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND COULD STAY IN THE EU

This was 6/27/16

This article was originally published by the London School of Economics.

There has as yet been no Brexit, and there will not be—because there is no such entity as "Britain." There could, however, be a U.K. exit. But those who insist that a 52-48 vote is good enough to take the entire U.K. out of the EU would trigger a serious crisis of legitimacy.

England and Wales have voted to leave the European Union, but Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar have voted to remain. These differing outcomes have to be the central focus of political attention while we wait for the debris of broken expectations to settle.

http://www.newsweek.com/how-scotland-and-n-ireland-could-retain-eu-membership-474931