Royal Mail | Sorting office | Post Office railway | Magpie | 1979 

When children’s TV was educational. Without shouting presenters and self obsessed Instagram narcissists.

I worked at the KEB LONDON. LOVED being a postman in the city late 1988/89.

Getting rid of the Mail rail was a mistake..that many more Van's on the road now! Bring it back!

All goes by road now, so much for those in charge wanting to make things greener!

Those old Royal Mail vans are so cool!

Imagine just typing postcodes for every letter that passes along your conveyor belt

A great vid with a nice bit of HST thrash at the end! The BR BRUTE trolley, very handy for dossing on as a kid, watching the trains go by....The name is an acronym-Britsh Rail Universal Trolley Equipment. These replaced the variety of such trolleys that had been in use by the pre Britsh Railways private companies....

Thanks Thames TV I enjoyed that .

Spent some time sitting at those key boards, after a couple of hours they had a rather hypnotic effect on me falling asleep, loved the 80,s with our F. TROOP. REGGIEOOOOHHH.

My Father was a postman to but not in UK, he work for sixteen years in the city of Porto Portugal.Good posting thanks

The mail service is a marvelous system. I know, because I was a carrier in the U.S.A.!

Great clip. I did the Mail Rail tour last year. Fascinating.

Family are still waiting on postcards from Rome sent to Australia sent in 1987

Haven't seen that intro for decades. Jeez!

Starsky and Hutch cardigan going on right there.

Jenny Hanley ......

This is... brilliant!

The viva van (HA110) the post office, & BT certainly kept vauxhall going back in the day!

5.32 Bloke has world’s best train set.

Ahhh before privatisation and email.

It was still like that at the sorting office when I worked for Royal Mail in 1986/7. This brings back memories. Most posties couldn’t wait to get out of the sorting office and onto walks delivering the mail.

Magpie was fab. Easily the best of the children’s “magazine” programmes.

Loved Magpie when I was a kid any chance of a full episode?

Jenny's voice is lovely

Jenny Hanley was so gorgeous. As a kid I remember her on Magpie and had the hots for her.

I live right behind Mount Pleasant - 6 acres at the back of it are currently being transformed into apartments. The dust is driving me mad...! The 'Mail Rail' is now some sort of ride-on tourist attraction. You enter on Phoenix Pl.

this is the po i remember in leicester and working the alf and segs machine

I worked at Royal Mail just a few years ago while at university. Nothing much as changed in terms of the sorting process, exactly the same.

Wow! That underground network was amazing! I'm really impressed!

Anorak and snail mail lover heaven....

I drove one of those a few times, then a Morris Marina..... and the flees you got off the bags...

Who still thinks computerisation and privatisation don’t destroy jobs?

How time have definitely changed for the worse .

Well . That looks like my old stamping ground .

I love those Thames credits, when life was soooo much better

Liverpool’s sorting office would of been full of giros .

Jenny Hanley.....many a school boy's dream!

6:12 There are is still a sign about 'brutes' visible at Paddington Station.

I worked at mount Pleasant and saw myself in this upload " WHEN I HAD HAIR " LOL

Fascinating...I was banned from watching ITV when I was younger....

bet you cant even call it "male" anymore!! fantastic

I love working at mount pleasant

Jenny Hanley..growl.. as an adolescent child she was my wet dream goddess..to this day she can still make this 53 year old bratwurst defy gravity...😍😍😍

Looked an awful mundane job in that sorting office. Don't think I could do it 😳😳

Love Jenny Hanley's big grey cardi.

You can today go on a little ride on the little train. Choo choo

Wonderful.

I’d have loved to do a public sector job back in those days

Royal mail destroyed by privatisation and Greed 😢

The mail train sounds a great idea. Why get rid of it? I know they still have freight trains, but far fewer of them now.

Internet, email and facebook greetings for Xmas....the postal industry is dying.

That timestamp is in a cool font for timestamps.

All those giros 😍

She looks warm

strange to think this type of post is almost obsolete. What is left will be dealt with by robots. how times have changed..

I have not had any mail for over 1.month they will not deliver to my complex in stretford Manchester. They are short staffed so they are delivering to houses & flats & care Holmes but not the complexes. Ah Well i posted all my Christmas cards today. They should arrive by christmas. Hopefully i will receive my mail by christmas. Just saying.

No wonder stamp's are expensive

Bong Girl Jenny Hanley

The underground system (4:30) is something the American postal system doesn’t have!

The post office railway is now part of the Postal Museum and you can go for a ride on the trains, look at "mail rail".

They do it all now with a laptop

Fascinating. Has the system been modernized or replaced?

no parcels in 1979

Wow ,I forgot this female presenter,as a teen I always want to give her one 😂🤦‍♂️

It didn’t show the special room where the postmen play football with parcels labelled fragile

I was 9 months old in December 1979

Is that Jenny Hanley?

Royal Mail have a really bad attitude delivering Amazon products cos they're so used to just carrying envelopes. I don't put up with any of their cheek at the door. Bstrds. IF YOU DON'T LIKE DELIVERING AMAZON PRODUCTS PISS OFF.💣⚰️

Royal mail is dying

Why go to mount pleasant sorting office when she was at Saint Pauls the mail from that box went to KEB EC office i should know I opened that box hundreds of times during the 80’s & 90’s 😊😊