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The post office and its story

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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The author outlines the postal service's development from early mail delivery methods through later institutional reforms, giving concise historical context followed by a focused account of modern operations. Chapters describe central offices and buildings, the travelling post office, parcel and motor mail arrangements, and telegraph services, supported by photographs and chapter-end notes. Emphasis is placed on administrative changes, logistical practices, and the everyday experiences of staff and users, presenting how the department organizes, transports, and processes correspondence and parcels to meet contemporary demands.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Heaving Overboard the Mails Frontispiece
    PAGE
The Mail Coaches Leaving London 20
Mail Coach and Train 34
St. Martin's le Grand 48
The Blind Section 62
The Travelling Post Office  
  Interior 70
  Suspending the Pouch 76
  Pouch and Net 76
  Pouch taken 76
  Apparatus for Receiving Pouch 78
  Apparatus for Delivering Pouch 78
The Parcel Post Hospital 94
The Custom House Officers at Work 96
The Sorting Office 110
A Postcard 114
A Postcard 120
A London Postman (Old Style) 126
The Woodpecker and the Telegraph Post 156
Telegrams on Telephone Wires 172
The Telephone Detective 182
Three Minutes' Conversation by Telephone 192
Underground Telephone Wires 198
How Treasure was Brought to London 210
St. Kilda Mail 219
The Postal Union Monument 228
A Post Office Stone 255
The River Postman 258
The Sorting School 280
The Postman's Bell 306
A Country Postwoman 314
A Nest in a Letter-box 328
THE POST OFFICE
& ITS STORY