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Mail Coach on the Bath-London run collecting mail from Postmaster (right in nightcap) without stopping. Aquatint c1840.
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UKRAINE Crimea -- 1855 -- Mr Angel, the postmaster. Full-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing uniform, seated on a horse during the British (and Allied) campaign against the Russians known as the Crimean War. These are some of the first photographic images of warfare ever shot -- Picture by Roger Fenton / Lightroom Photos / US LoC
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NATIONAL PICTURES<br><br>The car belonging to Postman Pat is driven into the Quadrangle at Buckingham Palace before the Children's Party At The Palace in London on June 25, 2006.<br><br>Photo - Rukhsana Hamid/National Pictures
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The village postman of Exford , West Somerset , Mr Gerald Winzer , is far too busy to take part in the go slow or work to rule activities , for he has a ten mile daily round which takes him to outlying farms and houses on Exmoor . His round takes him nearly a full day to complete , and at one point he has to ford the river Exe which is rather a tricky crossing when the river is in flood . <br>5th January 1962
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The country postman who has to carry his Christmas loads over open country in bad weather is grateful to those who &quotpost early" . Here is postman G. Glead , whose Cleeve Hill district in the Cotswolds gives him a lonely daily round to the isolated farms on the hills .<br>7th december 1948
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The country postman who has to carry his Christmas loads over open country in bad weather is grateful to those who &quotpost early" . Here is postman H Purvey , who for 25 years had delivered the mail at Haselton , a sparsely populated district in the Cotswolds . He has to cover about 14 miles daily on his round over fields , through woods and in very hilly country . Picture shows: mMs A Wheeler, 87 year old postmistress of Haselton , seeing Mr Purvey off with his delivery. Mrs Wheeler has been postmistress at Haselton for well over 50 years , using her cottage sitting room as a sorting office .<br>9th december 1947
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A postman delivers the morning mail in Newcastle on the day that Consignia was expected to announce thousands of job losses as part of a massive restructuring programme. <br><br>* As many as 40,000 jobs could be slashed over three years as a drive to fend off competition and end a trend of losing £1.5 million a day, according to reports. It is also thought that the name Consignia will be dropped in favour of the old name, 'Royal Mail.'
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Great Train Robbery - Robbers May Net A Million<br>Post Office and Railway Workers unload mailbags from remaining coaches of a travelling Post Office train at Cheddington Station, Buckinghamshire, 8th August 1963, after the Great Train Robbery that may have netted a gang of cool robbers £1,000,000 (2,800,000 dollars). The gang of masked men - said to number between 20 and 30 - held up the train 40 miles from London as it neared the end of its overnight run from Glasgow. The robbers tampered with the signals, fixed them at red without alerting the local signal box, halted the train and overpowered the crew. Then they uncoupled the engine and the first two coaches from the rest of the train and took them further down the line. Stolen were more than 100 bags of registered mail believed to include a shipment of diamonds.<br>
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Postman in County Claire, Eire.<br>
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Trolleys are seen laden with mounds of mailbags on no 1 platform at King's Cross Station , London where thousands of bags of letters and parcels brought in on overnight trains were awaiitng collection by Post Office vans which were fewer than usual owing to the postal workers' unofficial pay protest strike .<br><br>11th July 1964
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WORLD WAR I: RED CROSS. <br>American Red Cross workers providing water and mail service at Union Station, Washington, D.C., c1918.
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A British Royal Mail Van stops off at an American letter box in dowtown New York , New York , USA , when it was being driven to the New York Coliseum for the forthcoming British Industrial Exhibition . The Royal Mail Van was on exhibition 10 - 26 June<br>6 June 1960
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JOHN A. THOMPSON <br>(1827-1876). American mail carrier, known as 'Snowshoe' Thompson. Postal indicia, 1857, used by Thompson on his mail route through the California mountains on his homemade skis.
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DENMARK: MAILMAN, c1820s. <br>A Copenhagen mailman delivers a letter to a maid. Lithograph, Danish, c1820s.
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PONY EXPRESS: STAMP, 1960. <br>Pony Express commemorated on U.S. postage stamp, 1960.
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PIC FOR POSSIBLE NEW POSTAL SERVICE.<br><br>postbox <br>post office <br>red letterbox
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Victorian letter box - 3 furlongs 213 yards from the General Post Office - London's first pillar box on the corner of Fleet Street and Farringdon Street. Designed by A. E. Cowper in 1855-57<br>©TopFoto
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Mail Coach: Why the mail was late. The Westerners by Dee Brown, page 153.
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A postman<br>Punjab
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The Village Post Office by Thomas Waterman Wood 1873
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Embroidery showing Stephen's Triumph sixty miles a hour The London to York Royal Mail Coach commenced running in the year 1706 from Black Swan Holborn London and The first train ran on 27 September 1825 from Stockton to Darlington
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The New London Royal Mail<br>Charles Hunt 1836 <br>The new London and Liverpool Royal Mail Coach
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The Royal Mails Preparing To Start for the West of England <br>F Rosenberg after James Pollard 1831
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On His Last Delivery, 12th November 1959<br>Postman Frederick Smith of Essex Road, Longfield, Kent, is photographed making his last delivery - for at 60 years and after 31 years as a Postman he is now retiring.<br>But the folk of Hartley, where he is seen making this final delivery, are the people who will miss him most - for he has spent the majority of his time working in that village.<br>
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The Newsman.<br><br>&quotI, that bring the news."<br><br>'Our calling, however the vulgar may deem,<br>Was of old, both on high and below, in esteem;<br>E'en the gods were to much curiosity given, <br>For Hermes was only the Newsman of heaven.<br><br>Hence with wings to his cap, and his staff, and his heels,<br>He depictured appears, which our myst'ry reveals,<br>That news flies like wind, to raise sorrow or laughter, <br>While leaning on Time, Truth come heavily after.'<br><br>Newsmen's Verses, 1747.
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Chatting with the postman - c.1890 - © TopFoto
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Helen Richey ( noted American woman endurance flier ) is the only woman air liner pilot in the United States - she has just taken up her appointment - photo shows Helen Richey at the controls of the airliner as she made her first trip from Washington to Detroit in Michigan<br><br>January 11th 1935
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A Royal Mail train
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Lonely Postal Beat Postwoman Jean Niven ferries herself across the River Findhorn
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Mountains of Parcels In the parcel department workers deal with lots of parcels at Christmas time 1959
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Volunteers in training for the Christmas rush G P O School temporary workers the trainees seen testing out as sorters with their post town cards December 1948
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Mrs Horford of the GPO Surcharge Department works on underpaid letters King Edward Street EC 1
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E 40 Post Office Designed Machine for sorting letters at high speed 1985
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The last journey of Clovelly's Donkey Mail Cecil Braund and his donkey Peter walk up the famous cobbled streets Clovelly North Devon where they deliver letters mail for the post ofice April 1964
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Postman Collecting Mail from Postbox
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Postmen's Work to Rule bring pile up . Millions of letters are piling up deliveries have been cut Mount Pleasant London Sorting Office showing baskets of letters awaiting sorting 1962
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Bhutinder Singh (left) and Harmohinder Singh wearing their turbans while on duty in the sorting office at Reading 1962
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Dealing with Christmas Parcels at the New Army Parcels Office, Regent's Park. A huge pile of parcels waiting to be sorted.<br>1914
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The new Post Office streamlined Air Mail car was used for the first time when the first Empire Air Mail left Croydon - Sir Frederick Williamson ( Director of Postal Services ) despatched the first Empire Air Mail sent under the new scheme on behalf of the Postmaster General - photo shows the new streamlined car in front of the plane just before it left to inaugurate the new Empire air mail scheme<br><br>November 17th 1934
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Mail bags loaded on to Royal Mail train
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Night Mail train from Euston
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Sorting on the night mail train
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A Postman makes enquiries among the wreakage of prams and dolls cot when a block of flats in southern England was hit by a bomb during a attack
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Decades - 1950s - Night Mail from London (steam train) - Letter arrives in Scotland
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A postman trying to deliver in the heavy snow in Bough Beech, Kent. 28th December 1962
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The postman and the pillar box in China.<br>Pre 1949
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Postman Bradley who has been doing his rounds here he is delivering the mail to Mrs Clay and family by means of a basket they are marrooned to the top part of the house due to flooding in Kent 1953
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68 years old Mr T. W.Hills, believed to be London's last bearded Postman. He is at work at the East street, Barking Depot. April 3rd 1936
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Miss Grace Coles, of Wrotham, Kent is an auxiliary Postwoman and a travelling post office as well.<br>7th December 1937
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The Postman's Knock. Postman in General Post Office knocking on a front door. From a cover of a song dedicated to Sir Rowland Hill who introduced te Penny Post. Published c1870.
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John Tenniel's cartoon concerning the Postmater General, Henry Fawcett's introduction of the Post Office Savings Bank penny stamp savings scheme. From Punch, London, 1880
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Portrait of a tattooed Japanese letter carrier.
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Paying for letter delivery, c1870. A postman waits while a young man delves in his pocket for money to pay for his letter. In Britain payment for mail was made by the addressee until the introduction in 1840 of Rowland Hill's system of pre-payment by the purchase of adhesive stamps. In Germany this did not happen until after the creation of the German Empire in 1871. From a children's book. (Germany, c1870). <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto
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General Post Office, Lombard Street, London, 1808. This shows the scene in a busy letter sorting office. The dozens of sorters, each with his own dedicated position, emphasises how labour-intensive an efficient mail service was. From 'The Microcosm of London' published by Rudolph Ackermann. (London, 1808). <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto
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Countisbury (Devon) Blue Ball Inn 1907<br>The penny post meant letters could be sent cheaply; the Education Act of 1870 brought literacy to enable thousands to use the cheap postal service.<br><br>
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A post office under Louis XV. Carving XVIII-th century. Paris, museum Carnavalet. RV-318068
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World War I. Postwoman delivering the letters. France.
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Representatives of all vehicles bought by the Post Office for Royal Mail Services arranged behind a horse drawn mail wagon Leylad Roadtrain Postman bicycle 1982
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The postman, early 19th century. A woman comes to the door to receive a letter. On the right small child is trying to sell her something while dogs fight in the foreground. The postman, early 19th century. <br>Credit: Museum of London / HIP / TopFoto
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Postmen and other staff pose outside the post office in Byfield, Northamptonshire, c1873-c1923. Postmen and other staff pose outside the post office in Byfi <br>Credit: Reproduced by permission of English Heritage / HIP / TopFoto
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Royal Mail postal worker Ruka Fowosese sorts the Christmas post at the Nine Elms sorting office in London. Royal Mail are expected to handle a record postbag of more than 2.5 billion festive gifts and cards this Christmas. 12th Decemner 1999
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The travelling Post Office. The mailbags are loaded onto the Royal Mail compartment of the train at Crew station.
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