Collection & Delivery
Our collection contains relatively few examples (around five) of the mechanised processes used for collecting and delivery. This is partly because these processes remain the areas of the postal system that are least easy to mechanise. Many attempts have been made over the years to find ways to automatically collect and deliver letters but the most effective means remain the manual ones.
Examples from our Collection
Here are some examples of collecting and delivery machines in our collection:
Pedestrian Electric Delivery Truck, 1959
Introduced to try and ease the weight of carrying large volumes of mail.
Automated Postal Service Machine, 2004
Trial machine which weighed mail and printed a label for it, and acted as letter box.
Hand-held barcode scanner, pre-2006
Terminal used by postal workers to record the time at which a letter box is emptied.
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