The Postman (1940-1949) Pathe film

[Darren Bent]

It look like ideal walk for me :) It is interesting to see the different even we don't know the whole story. I bet most public think it is our workload these days.

[arnold cheshire]

It look like ideal walk for me :) It is interesting to see the different even we don't know the whole story. I bet most public think it is our workload these days.

public think we only do one street with one bag

[arnold cheshire]

No sound but still interesting. He covers a lot of ground but it appears that 1 in 30 houses get any mail. Looks kinda peaceful, guess this was after the war.

Pathe film.

fake

[arnold cheshire]

No sound but still interesting. He covers a lot of ground but it appears that 1 in 30 houses get any mail. Looks kinda peaceful, guess this was after the war.

Pathe film.

looks staged

[NWpostie]

It does look a little staged but not forgetting this was shortly after the war and the population was lower and villages were smaller, so I would imagine that would be about the sort of work he has for a small village of that era.

A lot of it looks fairly familiar, when I started in the late 80s we were still using the same type of push bikes, canvas bags was on its way out, we had the blue bags that used to dig into your shoulders, which meant many of us kept using the old canvas bag, we rarely had more than 2 bags a day with a flyer on 2nd deliveries and Royal Mail still made a profit. the work was more structured you had to be ready by 7am for the vans to take you out and drop you off, you made your way back on the bus for free, we had a bimble round town for an hour or so, before walking back for our lunch break and picked up our 2nd delivery. I would imagine up to the mid 90s a Postman from the 1940s would recognise the work we were doing then.

[krussel]

It does look a little staged but not forgetting this was shortly after the war and the population was lower and villages were smaller, so I would imagine that would be about the sort of work he has for a small village of that era.

A lot of it looks fairly familiar, when I started in the late 80s we were still using the same type of push bikes, canvas bags was on its way out, we had the blue bags that used to dig into your shoulders, which meant many of us kept using the old canvas bag, we rarely had more than 2 bags a day with a flyer on 2nd deliveries and Royal Mail still made a profit. the work was more structured you had to be ready by 7am for the vans to take you out and drop you off, you made your way back on the bus for free, we had a bimble round town for an hour or so, before walking back for our lunch break and picked up our 2nd delivery. I would imagine up to the mid 90s a Postman from the 1940s would recognise the work we were doing then.

Yes I agree with that. The single delivery finished the job.

[Nigel1505]

Henry Enfield's Mr Cholmondeley Warner would be an ideal voiceover.

[Sco77]

No door to doors :) unless he just took where he was going :D

[krussel]

No door to doors :) unless he just took where he was going :D

Yeah and mail that people actually wanted.

[krussel]

No door to doors :) unless he just took where he was going :D

Yeah and mail that people actually wanted.