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

[@bobbymaesteg]

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

[@CARLIN4737]

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

[@annenunney9907]

Well done

[@borderlord]

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

[@09weenic]

Are the tunnels just lying redundant now ?

[@szymongorczynski7621]

@@09weenic You can visit them on a tour and I think you can even go for a spin.

[@West.Ham1964]

Mainly because they closed down the main mail centres as distribution hubs like King Edward, WDO and Whitechapel (Where I worked) A shame as there was no need for that, the mail rail system worked so well for many years.

[@borderlord]

@@West.Ham1964 Yes ,Great shame...the huge distribution centre on Rathbone Place/Oxford street is luxury flats now last time I walked past if I remember..so the distribution centres are on the outskirts now?

[@silenthunteruk]

@@borderlord Most postal stuff these days is parcels instead of envelopes. Be harder to handle down there.

[@MetroVick]

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

[@kingshearer2]

Those old Royal Mail vans are so cool!

[@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus]

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....

[@andynixon2820]

Thanks Thames TV I enjoyed that .

[@CARLIN4737]

Splendid

[@marcosaraiva9205]

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

[@heinkle1]

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

[@janetwestwood9194]

Yep, Slough MLO ☝

[@GB-vn1tf]

Starsky and Hutch cardigan going on right there.

[@CARLIN4737]

Yeah very San Francisco chic! Classic. What's the deal with the floppy hat though?😉

[@51516]

Doesn't jenny climb out of a swimming pool wearing this cardigan , in one of the episodes?

[@GB-vn1tf]

@@CARLIN4737 I'm sure there is one in the start of S&H? It was LA though, wasn't it? I could be wrong?

[@movesky6696]

well that was the 1970s

[@LabRat6619]

Everyone wanted one

[@01DOGG01]

Haven't seen that intro for decades. Jeez!

[@olliedann]

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

[@Steaks652]

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.

[@McIntyreBible]

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

[@trevorrandom]

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

[@adid.5585]

This is... brilliant!

[@chrisblay]

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.

[@stevepearce6689]

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

[@fasthracing]

What's the rush?

Last year we had in France a letter that took 45 years to be found.

[@fasthracing]

That the lazy French for you.@

[@wollywotsit]

I’ve got em

[@fasthracing]

Doubt it. Post men only used to nick birthday cards hoping they had cash in them. @@wollywotsit

[@numberstation]

5.32 Bloke has world’s best train set.

[@dickJohnsonpeter]

or 39:36 😄

[@juliancurtis4071]

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

[@SuperOldShows]

Yep, same with BT keeping the ancient Commer van alive!

[@keithrose6931]

@@SuperOldShows yeah what awful vans to drive .

[@79devo]

Jenny Hanley ......

[@SuperBartles]

Absolute peach. And I love her voice & accent.

[@Steaks652]

Very nice

[@stevenmorley1639]

She was beautiful 😍. A Bond girl too. OHMSS.

[@markm-qf2fn]

​​@@stevenmorley1639she is 5 jears 80 jears This August birthday 76 . In This clip is she In This Clip 32 And in the bond movie 22 jears in the Hammer movie 23 . Jears

[@kamandi1362]

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

[@tyreign8743]

i know it's kinda randomly asking but does anyone know a good site to watch newly released tv shows online ?

[@felipebishop9145]

@Ty Reign Flixportal :P

[@tyreign8743]

@Felipe Bishop Thanks, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I appreciate it !!

[@felipebishop9145]

@Ty Reign You are welcome =)

[@waltjacob3776]

Ahhh before privatisation and email.

[@paddyeejit1954]

Jenny's voice is lovely

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

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.

[@MrDavey2010]

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

[@Cortinaman63]

Me too!!, and I got to be on an episode of Magpie,and met and talked to her, and told her she was very pretty, it was obvious I had a crush on her, and she was so nice, I got a signed photo, also met the rest of the team, it was the episode about the Wurlitzer Organ , and yes I still have the signed photo!.

[@PlanetImo]

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

[@ajs41]

You can ride on the train now at the Postal Museum.

[@paulfisher8753]

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

[@stevepearce6689]

Anorak and snail mail lover heaven....

[@staceyk2627]

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.

[@Red-Revolution708]

How time have definitely changed for the worse .

Not really, they wouldn't have though that 40 years later we'd make that whole system redundant and be able to send mail electronically !

[@peregrinemccauley7819]

Well . That looks like my old stamping ground .

[@paulm1162]

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

[@mickydub3]

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

[@LabRat6619]

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

[@ModMokkaMatti]

@@taranormal11 those were better days for many; even those of us in primary school.

[@harmonyln7]

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.

[@johnsinclair4111]

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

[@silenthunteruk]

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

[@BokorRider]

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

[@bens1972]

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

[@MrRadiorobot]

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...😍😍😍

[@monkehbitch]

And I bet she had a really hairy motte too!

[@MrRadiorobot]

70s fur burger! Awesome!

[@monkehbitch]

@@MrRadiorobot with a fanny like a rats ear...

[@jameshiggins1703]

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

[@arthurreeder2474]

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

[@Mark-ms5pn]

I love working at mount pleasant

[@silondon9010]

Royal mail destroyed by privatisation and Greed 😢

[@fasthracing]

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

[@chrisd5610]

Wonderful.

[@SRPC21]

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

[@pit_stop77]

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

[@blower1]

Not much different to a 'beep' supermarket checkout job

[@nicky29031977]

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

[@chrisrowl5001]

All those giros 😍

[@TomMarvan]

Fascinating. Has the system been modernized or replaced?

[@TomMarvan]

@TheRenaissanceman65 :(

[@jaspercasper9195]

She looks warm

[@11carbuff19572011]

Love Jenny Hanley's big grey cardi.

[@Tracertme]

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

[@Ron-u1z]

You don't know what your talking about.

[@wendydavenport9418]

No wonder stamp's are expensive

[@gaggymott9159]

Is that Jenny Hanley?

[@McIntyreBible]

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

[@szymongorczynski7621]

Nor does the UK, it closed in 2003.

[@McIntyreBible]

@@szymongorczynski7621 thanks for the update.

[@szymongorczynski7621]

@@McIntyreBible So much for reducing CO2 emissions! They hardly use trains for the long distance transport too, most of it goes by road and air.

[@noka79]

They do it all now with a laptop

[@a-khanation5279]

no parcels in 1979

[@mickcorbett2518]

Bong Girl Jenny Hanley

[@mccity6370]

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.

[@brunster64]

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

[@ModMokkaMatti]

That's now handled by the FedEx and UPS drones here in the States. They are the new masters of damaged goods.

[@elbownesdam4024]

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

[@keith800]

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".

[@noka79]

I was 9 months old in December 1979

[@belluh-1iroquois91]

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.💣⚰️

[@tigerbread78]

Actually Royal Mail deliver a LOT of non-Amazon parcels, have done for many years, it's the main part of their business now

[@anbishtamang]

Royal mail is dying

[@essexandy189]

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 😊😊