Overview

This selection of images comes from the 1930s and 1940s. They are pictures to accompany some of the voices you can hear on the Speeding the Mail - An oral history of the Post office CD.

Letter sorters, counter clerks, the postie holding a brace of pheasants and rabbits (just another day in the Returned Parcels section at Mount Pleasant sorting office…) - all these photographs whisk you back to a bygone age.

 This is BPMA postcard set no. 1.