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The Parcels Post - First Day: Sketches at the General Post Office, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

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The Parcels Post - First Day: Sketches at the General Post Office, 1883. 'Posting parcels; divisional sorting; despatching room; loading vans; the lift...Social, commercial, and domestic convenience...upon a very extensive scale, will be furthered by this excellent institution, which came into operation throughout the United Kingdom on Wednesday...The First Day of the Parcels Post at the General Post Office, at the London District Post Offices, and at six or seven new offices specially established for this work in different parts of London, was an interesting occasion...Upon the arrival, in the yard above, of a collecting van...the capacious mouth of the shoot [ie chute] would open and the packages would glide down with great rapidity. They were seized upon below by numbers of willing hands, and the first rough sortment into the rows of wicker baskets, each proportioned to a division, was then made...the carts came rattling in from all quarters, and parcels of every form and dimensions poured down the incline in a steady stream…to the sorting-rooms in the basement. The total number of parcels, from the collecting vans and from all other sources, which passed through the sorting-room up to midnight on the first day, was twenty-five thousand'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A42_215

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52,3Mo (4,5Mo) / 31,1cm x 42,2cm / 3669 x 4982 (300dpi)

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