Post haste from times past

Thursday 29th October 2009, 2:58PM GMT.

From Terry Connor.
MR Martin Summers’s letter (JEP, 21 October) on his (unusual) speedy encounter with the mail service to and from Edinburgh prompted my reminiscence of days gone by before the expensive sorting machinery (et al) was installed to deal with and speed up mail processing.

In the immediate post-war period we enjoyed morning as well as afternoon manual ‘door delivery’ even in the wilds of Pontac; and in 1959 an ‘Air Letter’ posted by my mother here in the local village post box reached me in my apartment in Montreal just 36 hours later.

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PJG

October 30, 2009 at 10:17 am

YEH.
and no doubt the postman doffed his cap and took all of two and six home every week to feed his family.
You may not think its progress but I bet the postman does.

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