Post Office Counter Equipment

The public face of the postal service has always been the Post Office branch.

Our Museum collection holds furniture from branch offices across a number of decades. There are many examples of typical fittings including wall clocks and Victorian inkwells through to modern pens and a wide range of counter accessories such as stamp moisteners, handstamps, coin holders and labelling machines. Bringing the collection fully up to date, we have a range of computerised equipment used in branches over the last few years.

We also hold a large number of scales and balances, those essential tools of a Post Office branch. These show the development in weighing devices from intricate Victorian four beam balances to the electronic machines seen today.

Documentation relating to this equipment - particularly the papers on Counters Operations and Services in POST 22 - can be ordered and seen in the public Search Room.