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Clock and lsymbol of the national postal service spain on the building Correos y Telegrafos in Bilbao of 1927, by architect Secundino Zuazo.
Public Clocks by Arjan Richter
This photograph continues my social history project documenting both the mundane and the interesting in the City of Fremantle and surrounding areas through the medium of waymarking.com.
This is one of the more, on the surface at least, mundane subjects in my social history project, However, it reflects a changing business model for the delivery of postal services in Australia: the licensed post office. Rather than provide its own post offices, Australia Post has moved to licensing small businesses to operate as post offices, often in conjunction with other businesses such as a newsagency or convenience store.
In effect the licensee is an franchisee. This business model means that local communities still have a postal service whilst Australia Post continues to make significant profits.
EXPLORE: 10/23/12 #341
When I saw this old box in front of an abandoned residence, it immediately caught my eye. The old papers that were sticking out of the open door gave this old thing such character. I decided to tweak the photo and add a couple layers of texture. I then searched for a quote that would be suitable to go along with it.
Description: As part of his daily rounds, this unidentified letter carrier is shown retrieving mail from a sidewalk collection mailbox.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1992
Collection: U.S. Postal Employees
Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194275
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-23
A rather fine pictorial survey of the work of the Post Office produced in 1935 and showing the vast work of the organisation at that time, encompassing postal services, telephone and telegrams and national savings and banking. Not only did the Post Office provide the actual consumer services but they developed technologies, maintained physical infrastructure and procured supplies. Even the Dog Licence that was then required to own one is there. This is the title page showing elements of all these works and it is by the well known Irish engraver and artist Robert Gibbings.
Description: City letter carrier seated in a three-wheeled "mailster" motor vehicle. Carriers used these vehicles to carry the ever-increasing amounts of mail that was being delivered to American households after end of the Second World War. The mailster worked best in temperate climates or on even terrain. In other areas, they sometimes did not work at all. Northern carriers, immobilized in as little as three inches of snow, also complained of the vehicles' inability to heat properly. The three-wheel design left mailsters susceptible to tipping over if cornering over 25 miles per hour or if caught in a wind gust. One carrier complained that his mailster was tipped over by a large dog.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1955
Collection: U.S. Mail Trucks
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2008-32
Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194384
Old Ford Aerostar gets new paint and stripes. Looks good for a vintage van! In Little Italy, San Diego.
Description: In this image a city letter carrier retrieves mail from a street collection mailbox in snowy weather. Neither carrier nor city are known.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1920
Collection: U.S. Postal Employees
Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194283
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-31
An iconic red post box in Katherine Grainger’s home town of Aberdeen was painted gold by Royal Mail to celebrate her Olympic gold medal win.
To mark Katherine’s gold medal winning performance with team mate Anna Watkins in the Woman’s rowing double sculls, Royal Mail has painted the iconic red post box at Castlegate Post Office, 33 Castle Street, Aberdeen AB11 5BB gold. The UK is the first country to paint post boxes gold to celebrate Olympic and Paralympic gold medal wins.
To celebrate the win, Royal Mail also produced special gold medal stamps yesterday, which are on sale in more than 500 Post Offices today, including Westhill’s Post Office branch. The stamps feature an image of Katherine and her team mate Anna Watkins on the podium with their gold medals for the Woman’s rowing double sculls. A further 4,700 branches will be selling the gold medal stamps within a week of a win.
Royal Mail will be painting one of its iconic and much-loved red post boxes gold to celebrate every Team GB and ParalympicsGB gold medal win during the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
This is a unique, highly visible and fitting way to recognise the successes of Team GB and ParalympicsGB gold medal win during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Royal Mail’s post boxes are a much-loved part of the UK landscape. The UK was among the first countries to erect post boxes. Anthony Trollope, the famous nineteenth century author and former Chief Secretary to the Postmaster General, is credited with introducing pillar boxes to the UK, having seen them in France and Belgium.
Many of the first UK post boxes were painted green to blend in with the landscape. However, to make them more visible to the public, bright red was introduced in 1874. Red has remained the standard colour for UK boxes from then on, with few exceptions.
The gold boxes will remain in use and customers will be able to post mail in these boxes as normal. Mail collections from the boxes will also be unaffected. The boxes will be repainted in Royal Mail's traditional red in due course.
Description: This is an image of a three-wheeled mail collection Indian motorcycle in Washington, D.C., on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street. The motorcycle was used only on an experimental basis in DC.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Geography: USA
Date: 1912
Collection: U.S. Mail Trucks
Repository: National Postal Museum
Accession number: A.2006-74
Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194326
A cast iron wall mounted post box photographed in Dalkey in 1994. This would have been installed after the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922.
Prior to 1922 post boxes in Ireland carried the insignia of the British monarch and were painted red. Post 1922 green was adopted for post boxes in the Republic of Ireland and have become as iconic in Ireland as British red boxes are in the UK.
Camera: Contax RTSII + Carl Zeiss 50mm f1.7 Planar lens
For more 35mm archive photographs of Ireland please click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Ireland
It is always grand to find a work by an artist you admire and that you've never seen before. This cover to the souvenir for the Congrès International des Postes held in London in 1929 and issued on behalf of the Associated British Railways has artwork by an artist much associated with the London & North Eastern Railway and London Transport, Austin Cooper. It is very much in his style and shows the 'automatic apparatus' that was used to deliver and colelct mail from a moving Travelling Post Office train and that was installed at many locations on Britain's railways. It is very 'LNER" in feel this and uses Cooper's drawn lettering that you'd see on various of his posters and artworks.
In North America we're used to seeing Fords and Daimler Sprinters working for our mainline carriers, but in Jamaica and many other developing nations its vans like the Hiace that take most of this market.
Description: An unidentified driver takes advantage of the Post Office Department's new snorkel chute curbside mailbox. The mailboxes were designed to permit motorists to drop off their mail without getting out of their cars. This mailbox was placed in front of New York City's main city post office.
Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Culture: American
Geography: USA
Date: 1953
Museum
Collection: U.S. Mailboxes
Repository: www.postalmuseum.si.edu/
• For Black History Month AND
• For February's Alphabet Fun: 2015 Edition AND
• For We're Here! — "Post Offices"
African Americans in the Postal Service and Philately
(This is a great Smithsonian National Postal Museum micro-site with links to several specific topics.)
Rather than focusing on an individual today, i thought i’d do something more in line with the Hereios theme of “Post Offices.” (Thanks, ♔ Georgie R!) A couple of interesting facts about the history of black people and the postal service in USA:
Enslaved black people were among the first mail carriers in the Southern United States. The practice continued until concerns about slave uprisings led to a formal ban on slaves carrying mail in 1802. This and additional restrictions were in place for the next 60 years, until the American Civil War.
Since the first adhesive postage stamp was issued in the United Kingdom in 1840 (the “Penny Black” featuring Queen Victoria), postal services worldwide have had a long tradition of featuring influential historical figures on postage stamps. The United States government followed suit a few years later in 1847 with a five-cent stamp featuring Benjamin Franklin and a ten-cent stamp dedicated to George Washington. It wasn’t until 100 years after that first UK stamp, in 1940, that Booker T. Washington would be the first African American to be honored on a stamp as part of the “Famous Americans” series. Almost another 40 years later, in 1978, Harriet Tubman was the first person to be honored in the new “Black Heritage” series. This also made her the first African American woman to appear on a US postage stamp.
For interesting slideshows and information, check out these links to specific pages on the Smithsonian site:
“The History and Experience of African Americans in America’s Postal Service”
“The Black Experience: African Americans on Stamps”
And this link to the United States Postal Service:
USPS Black Heritage Series list of stamps, 1978-present
And for more information about Booker T. Washington and Harriet Tubman, try these:
Booker T. Washington on Biography[.]com
Harriet Tubman on Biography[.]com
Booker T. Washington on Wikipedia
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From a month of black history-inspired images and information.
P.S. Big thanks to pixabay.com for the FREE stamp outline and postmark overlays.
Barrington, Illinois 42.131818, -88.129651,
March 29, 2022
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It’s no wonder our delivery person here has a huge smile. This once modest postal delivery truck seems to have been converted into an off-duty Time Attack Challenge monster. Massive piping, a rear spoiler and hefty diffuser suggest this Long Life USPS delivery truck is about to put down some epic course runs. A few last minute packages need to be delivered and then this thing’s hittin’ the track!!!
Custom track numbers and a USPS logo help land the vibe, but sadly the “PRIORITY” license plate did not make the cut :(
I hope you enjoy!
Featured Wheels: Competition Modern in Stealth Anthracite by Lee Schulz
A City of Los Angeles Sanitation Truck and US Postal Service vehicle collided with a car near the intersection of 83rd Street and Denker Avenue in Los Angeles on February 8, 2007. © Photo by Rick McClure.
Sterling truck in Washington D.C. This is the former Ford Cargo model, purchased by Freightliner and marketed as a Sterling. The round headlight used by Sterling (instead of the rectangular sealed beams used by Ford) reminds me of the old 1980s Mack cabovers.
Do you want to receive a free photography print from me? My plan is to send out (free) postcards of selected photography prints, to anyone! You, your best friend, your favourite enemy, your grandmother, a complete stranger…anyone who is interested. (This also means you’ll finally get something cool in the mail, which you have to admit is a splendid concept.)
I've already received postcard requests from over 20 countries! This is COOL.
So: all you have to do is send me a message with your address/P.O. box/anywhere you want it sent, and I will mail them out! And please - feel free to share this!
Built in the 1920's this postal service car is on display at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. Here is a non-HDR fisheye view of the same car.
Created with three shots at 0 and +/-2ev were combined in Photomatix and enhanced with Topaz Adjust.
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