Do you remember a time when we got 3 postal deliveries a day. AND post on Christmas Day?

Question

yes - it's the UK

Ahh the telegraph boy - he was dreaded around our way. All the neigbours would have their eyes pinned on him in the hope he wasn't coming to them,as he could only really mean one thing :(

Answer 1

Yes, and this was the time when obliging men in leather jerkins would actually come and collect the dustbins or heave the coal. Happy days!

Answer 2

In the U S, there was a time during the Christmas holiday there were Sunday deliveries. I'm not sure, but I believe, for a couple of weeks, there were 2 daily deliveries also. At that time, I was sending over 100 cards. It had to be in the early 60s. My oldest child was still a toddler.

Answer 3

I remember 2 deliveries per day and stamps that cost 2 and 3 cents! Everytime I buy a book of stamps, the price goes up and then I have to buy more stamps to get the correct amount to send things, ot just put 2 stamps on to give an added bonus to the PO

Answer 4

I once posted a casual postcard in Chartres which was collected some time on Sunday afternoon and delivered in London first thing the following morning. They will never achieve that standard again, for all their modern sorting devices.
I remember Christmas Day post only because my brother's school report was once delivered on Christmas Day, poor fellow!

Answer 5

Nope! I'm 65 and don't remember that...in fact, what I do remember is everything but 7-11 being closed! Now grocery stores are open until 4 pm on Christmas. Never got mail delivered on the 25th.

Answer 6

Back when people couldnt wait a day for a letter - just as bad as Tesco etc not giving people christmas eve off. If you know its closed you plan ahead for it and get the time at home with the family you deserve.
Merry Christmas anyway - Enjoy 2008

Answer 7

No. I've never known mail to be delivered more than once a day and they didn't deliver on Christmas Day. Now a telegram would be. My Grandparents used to get them from family living on the other side of the world.

Answer 8

I remember (U.S.) twice a day mail and twice a day newspaper (you could get a.m. or p.m. edition). I remember calling grandma and telling the operator VICTORY459, ring 2 please.
Now, there's so much EMAIL, we get more JUNK than letters.
As far as mail delivery, one of the girls in my Sunday school class (I also taught her brother and younger sister) had an upcoming birthday. We live 3 miles apart in different zip codes. I mailed her birthday card so it would get to her the day before. Sunday her mom asked me if I had sent a birthday card (since I had in the past for her brother and sister). I assured her that I did. Seems the girl was upset because she never got one from me. ELEVEN days after I mailed it, she got the birthday card...THREE MILES!
Then, this past June, I was at my son's in Oregon. We had gone to Mt. Saint Helens (the one the blew up in 1980) and I bought some postcards there. I sent them to all the kids in my Sunday school class. The Sunday before Halloween, one of 'my boys' came up to me and told me he got the card with Mt. Saint Helens on it! OVER THREE MONTHS from Oregon to S.E. Virginia! he he

Answer 9

You must live in the UK?
Americans never ever got
3 posts or any mail on Christmas day, ever...that I
can remember.
(I think it's funny when I'm watching some British movie,
and the master of the house
says, "send that in the afternoon post." I always
wonder, "what afternoon post.")

Answer 10

The old US Post Office Department was definitely something worthy of admiration for mail service users. Rough as can be on employees but great for everyone else.