Overview

A selection of the many fantastic images in the poster collection of The Royal Mail Archive.

These include designs by Alick Knight and Hans Unger and are examples of the public information posters produced by the General Post Office.

There is also an early call to use the postcode, with a design by Alick Knight based on an image of Norwich cathedral. Norwich was the place chosen to trial a version of the modern postcode system in 1959 (but was in fact the last place to be properly coded, in 1974, following revisions of the trial system).

The set is completed with Hans Unger’s 1950 poster full of advice on how to “pack your parcels carefully”. Two of these designs also feature on our fridge magnets:: Post Early (1956) by Peter Huveneers, and Don’t Risk Delay (1967) by Stephens.

This is BPMA Postcard set no. 6.