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This tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the Postmaster-General's Annual Reports, and gathered, during personal intercourse and investigation, at the General Post-Office of London and its Branches. Through the adventures of these friends, maneuvering their way through narrow escapes, shipwrecks, and attempted robberies, learn what life was like in London, and how each delivered letter brought joy to its intended recipient. Also, learn about the intricacies of the Telegraph which at that time was handled by the post office. Throughout their adventures of learning the ins-and-outs of the postal system, the reader learns how the mail was handled, processed, and dispensed throughout England and Europe. are missing! Our friends must take on the role of detective to trace the mysterious disappearance. Though the British Post-Office at this time delivered in good condition over fourteen hundred million letters, a half-dozen important ones addressed to Messr. In the 1800's, guaranteeing a letter to delivery was a bit of a challenge, as Phillip Maylands, his sister Mary, and their friend George Aspel quickly find out. In this fun adventure in merry, old England, the reader is taken back to the beginning days of the General Post-Office, learning about the founding of the mail system.

#POST HASTE MAILING SERVICES MOVIE#

The resulting film is a bit of a historical curiosity, and was recently shown as such on a specialist British movie channel, but I must admit that I did learn from it some facts of which I had previously been unaware.Paperback. Instead he uses old prints and illustrations taken from the British Museum and the (now defunct) Postal Museum, Tottenham. The earlier part of the story could have been illustrated by using actors to stage reconstructions of historic scenes, but Jennings evidently rejected this option as too expensive. The contemporary part of the story is illustrated using scenes of a sorting office, mail vans and a Handley Page biplane airliner, which looks very quaint today but which probably looked state-of-the-art at the time. The 19th century was a period of automation which saw a great increase in the speed and efficiency of the service, something which continued into the 20th. These in turn were phased out with the coming of the railways in the 1840s, a period which also saw the introduction of universal penny postage and of the postage stamp. It was not until 1784 that horse-drawn coaches were used to carry the mail. (This explains why the horn is still used as a symbol of the postal service in many countries). They carried horns which they were expected to blow whenever they met anyone on the road or 'at least three times in every mile'. For more than 100 years, the mail was delivered around the country by 'postboys', mounted couriers who, despite the name, were normally adult men. It was made for the GPO Film Unit and is a potted history of the British Post Office from its foundation in the reign of Charles II up to the 1930s. 'Post-Haste' was the first film directed by Humphrey Jennings, later to become one of Britain's best-known directors of documentary films.

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