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The Post Office : the other side of the Counter or what the Customer does not see
by Robert Johnson
The article is based on the Stuart Rossiter Trust lecture of November 2006 and describes some of the work and official rules that a postal clerk might have to deal with in the course of a day including letters, parcels, postal and money orders, the savings bank, the telegraph and telephone, insurance, licences, airmails and savings banks. These are profusely illustrated with pictures of forms and of pages from books of postal regulations. The forms are from the Great Britain and many other countries around the world are represented for example a savings form from Southern Rhodesia, a French Service Suspended label concerning nuclear tests in the Pacific, Belgian and French social security forms, a Netherlands authority to collect mail card, an Indian radio licence some of which bear postage stamps
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Great Britain
Australia
USA
France
Belgium
World
Netherlands
East Indies |
