: Postage and Packing

A number of campaigns highlighted the importance of packaging for successful delivery using poster image to show how it should (or shouldn’t) be done and therefore graphically illustrating instructions for the public. Alongside this were campaigns to use correct postage and labelling. The thumbnails below are links to larger images and more information.

4d minimun foreign rate Tom Eckersley (1914-1995) 4d minimum foreign rate, 1951 [+]
Size: Quad Crown Reference: The Royal Mail Archive POST 110/3210 (PRD 0620)

Please pack parcels very carefully Tom Eckersley (1914-1995) Please pack parcels very carefully, 1957 [+]
Size: Quad Crown Reference: The Royal Mail Archive POST 110/2592 (PRD 0877)

Address your mail clearly and correctly Leonard Beaumont (1891-1986) Address your mail clearly & correctly, 1957 [+]
Size: Quad Crown Reference: The Royal Mail Archive POST 110/2591 (PRD 0857)

Pack your parcels carefully Hans Unger (1915-1974) Pack your parcels carefully, 1960 [+]
Size: Quad Crown Reference: The Royal Mail Archive POST 110/2606 (PRD 1097)

All posters copyright © Royal Mail Group Ltd courtesy of the British Postal Museum & Archive unless stated otherwise. Contact k.stuckey@arts.ac.uk for more information.
The exhibition runs from 7th October - 4th November 2009 in the Well Gallery, London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle.

Online extras

Exclusively online, the two posters below represent one of the range of themes adopted by the General Post Office in their advertising.

Use block letters for telegrams Stan Krol (born 1910) Use block letters for telegrams, 1950 [+]
Size: Crown folio Reference: The Royal Mail Archive POST 110/1241 (PRD 0563)

ADDRESS YOUR LETTERS PLAINLY Tom Eckersley (1914-1995) Address your letters plainly, 1942 [+]
Size: Van side-small Reference: The Royal Mail Archive POST 110/2968 (PRD 0262.2)

All posters copyright © Royal Mail Group Ltd courtesy of the British Postal Museum & Archive unless stated otherwise. Contact k.stuckey@arts.ac.uk for more information.

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October 2009: Designs on Delivery: GPO Posters from 1930 to 1960

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