POST EARLY AND PACK SECURELY SAYS MR MARPLES, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL

POST EARLY AND PACK SECURELY SAYS MR MARPLES, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL

Flashscan Can Number: L3B71P19 Original ID: 12997 Alternate ID: FS091258007_0 Preview available at: https://cdn.dam.gettyimages.com/S60V9855/as/qb0jme-9kp9so-70jozo/FS091258007_0.mp4 "POST EARLY" AND "PACK SECURELY" SAYS MR MARPLES, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. COUNTRY TOWN EVENT ENGLAND G.P.O. H.Q.'s. "POST EARLY" AND "PACK SECURELY" SAYS MR MARPLESI, I 1 ANNUAL CIIRISTMA3 PLEA: CLASSIFICATION POST OFFICE. SERVICES: "POST EARLY" AND "PACK SECURELY!' SAYS POSTMASTPR GEIERAL_Iii HIS Tix 9.12 /5.55.p.m. LIBRARY NUMBER 12997/ ISSUE YEAR NO. T;-[E POSTMASTER GENERAL, in his annual Christmas appeal to the public to help the post office to deal with the enormous amount of extra mail. (Huw Thomas) CS Mr. Marples seated behind desk with arcels on y it: What I would ask the public to do particularly is to pack securely. Now if you lock at this example here. C. into CU Parcel all untied. It is quite a heavy piece of equipment packed in a rotten. way, and there 18 no hope of the person who should, receive that, receiving it in good order and condition. CU Huw: (Is Christmas mail still increasing?) CS Mr. Marbles: The mail will increase. It will be enormous. Normally speaking if you pack the letters on top of each other in an ordinary day they come to 4 times the height of Everest over sea level. At Christmas they will come to 18 times Everest over sea level in a single day at the peak day. Therefore I do beg of you to think of the problem of the post-man, the man who trud 6gyr tsereeIalth 4frigmeeolAtemal load. es 5 -sees. •