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  1. Rapid Transit For Mails

    Date released
    15 Jan 1914
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    294
    NoS ID
    382225
    Story no
    3 / 6

    New York’s new system

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  2. Postman, The (1997 Film)

    Director
    Kevin Costner
    Producer
    Kevin Costner; Steve Tisch; Jim Wilson

    Feature film. Set in 2013, after World War Three has destroyed most of USA, including the government. an itinerant actor nicknamed Shakespeare (Costner) who wonders between villages performing scenes from...

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  3. 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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  4. Post Haste!

    Date released
    1 Sep 1930
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    2029
    NoS ID
    384792
    Extras
    1 film clip

    NfO synopsis: Germany’s ocean express adopts catapult-aeroplane system for still quicker mail delivery.

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  5. The Post Office Underground Railway

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    18
    NoS ID
    350148
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Three billion travellers a year use London’s complex underground railway system - but how many of them know about a miniature train that carries its unseen cargo under the metropolis day by...

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  6. Post Instant

    Date released
    6 Jul 1967
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1987A
    NoS ID
    026955
    Story no
    3 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Post Instant. DESCRIPTION: The Postmaster General introduces Postal Fortnight at Norwich. This is the first Sorting Office to use the new Automatic Letter Sorting Equipment. SHOTLIST:...

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  7. Fenner’s Apprentice At GPO

    Date released
    Jun 1972
    Series name
    Parade
    Issue no
    103
    NoS ID
    327371
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: Mechanical engineering apprentice, Lenwood Smith, from Jamaica observes the conveyor belt system used at Britain’s Post Office HQ.

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  8. Sorting It All Out

    Date released
    21 Dec 1964
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1855
    NoS ID
    025798
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sorting It All Out. DESCRIPTION: The sorting system at Mount Pleasant in London seems rather antiquated compared with the electronic sorting system in Nuremberg, which deals with...

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  9. Viewdata

    Date released
    1979
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    1055
    NoS ID
    329296
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: A new communications system has been developed by the British Post Office. It provides immediate access to an almost limitless store of information from the Post Office’s computer via the...

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  10. Gyro Banking

    Date released
    19 Aug 1968
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2046
    NoS ID
    027508
    Story no
    5 / 7

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Giro Banking. DESCRIPTION: The new Post Office Banking System that is run from a fifteen million pound computerised Centre in Bootle. SHOTLIST: MS pan man puts data-cards into computer....

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