Many treasures like this are crammed into a warehouse that is the British Postal Museum Store in Debden. This is one of those places you need to make a booking for a tour. Well worth the effort. You'll see the furnishings from old post offices, an incredible array of Victorian Pillar postboxes and then there are the vehicles: trucks, cars, bikes all from those first days of postal delivery.
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The good old times. We don't even have postoffices here anymore. You have go to a desk in a bookstore now!
I think I used some of those objects....
I think I sent a telegram once in my life when I was very young. I have a vague memory. I do remember when the mail was delivered twice a day. I was very little but, for some reason I have a memory of it.
I love the typeface the GPO used to use. I guess one of the problems of having no comment control is the stupid spam - I'm getting so much of that these days.
Post offices seem to be struggling all over the world. Telegram? I never sent one and never received one.
One of my jobs in ancient times involved sending telexes, the only "quick" way to do international communications. And the first fax machine I used had heat sensitive paper on a cylinder and the fax was produced line by line as the cylinder spun. Still, somewhat more advanced than the telegrams we've seen on Downton Abbey.
Oh, that really looks like my kind of museum! Which reminds me that we're into the 3rd month of the year and I've totally failed in my resolution to visit one unusual museum a month.
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