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  1. Post Office profits (1977)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Sir William Ryland about excess profits of 100 million pounds at the Post Office and a rebate to telephone users whilst postal charges are going up. He also comments on the splitting of postal...

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  2. Tom Jackson on vote against cheap Christmas post (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Tom Jackson, General Secretary of the Union of Post Office Workers (UPOW), on a vote against introducing a cheaper Christmas stamp, costing 5p. Delegates also rejected proposals to reintroduce Sunday...

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  3. Post office privatisation plans (1994)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Peter Russell reports from Westminster on Parliamentary reaction to government plans to privatize parts of the Post Office’s Parcelforce and Royal Mail services. With comment from President of the Board of...

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  4. Walter Goldsmith on two-tier postal system (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Walter Goldsmith, Director-General of the Institute of Directors, claims the Post Office is not properly operating its two-tier postal system. He says his organisation sent 200 letters across the country to...

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  5. Post Office engineers dispute (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Norman Howard on Post Office engineers’ dispute over call for 35-hour working week, ongoing for last 7 years and now coming to a head with industrial action planned. Discuss government wage policy and...

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  6. Policeman fatally wounded in post office raid (1994)

    Genre
    Press conference; Speech

    Chief Superintendent Roy Ramm of Scotland Yard describes an attempted robbery on a post office in New Addington, Croydon, in which Police Sergeant Derek Robertson received fatal stab wounds.

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  7. Charles Fries interview (1978)

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    Interview

    Charles Fries, American TV executive producer, on his decision to set up a news production company in Britain; mentions the Martian Chronicles; Star Wars. Interviewer not identified.

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  8. Alternatives to the Post Office (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Report on a Parliamentary statement by UK Trade Secretary Sir Keith Joseph on Government proposals to end the Post Office monopoly if a current industrial dispute by postal workers continues. Includes a...

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  9. 200 years of Bristol post service (1984)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on an eighteenth century coach retracing the 131 mile journey between Bristol and London to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the Bristol Post Service to London. Top coachman, John Parker,...

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  10. Alan Tuffin on Post Office strike (1988)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with leader of the Union of Communication Workers, Alan Tuffin, on a national strike by Post Office workers – the first in seventeen years. The dispute centres on a bonus payment to new...

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