Selling the Air Mail Service
The British Postal Museum & Archive has a new posting – Selling the Air Mail Service.
With the rapid development of Air Mail services from the 1920s onwards, the Post Office was faced with the challenge of marketing the concept to the British public. Brigadier General Sir Frederic Williamson, Director of Postal Services, summed up the problem in a lecture to the Post Office Telephone and Telegraph Society of London in November 1933 (POST 50/24, p 14): “the British user of the Postal service is extremely conservative” “it takes a long time and a considerable amount of persuasion to induce him to take up readily or on a large scale any new service” “what is essential in a new service such as this is to bring its advantages under the notice of those who are likely to use it”..
Which Optical Character Recognition Software do You Use?
Adobe Digital Scrapbooking Tip – Postage Stamp
Of interest to our digital scrapbook readers, Adobe Digital Scrapbooking Tip – Postage Stamp is a ‘how-to’ set of instructions on postage stamps by Linda Sattgast.
Would You Participate in a Digital Competition?
Zeppelin Mail Drop over Flensburg, Germany, 1924
Lick Stamps No More
The article Lick Stamps No More by Sreenath Sreenivasan discusses making digital postage stamps using commercial vendors.
After test driving a couple of Internet stamp products available to consumers, I’ve decided this is the greatest innovation in mail since self-adhesive stamps.
