GPO Handling 110,000 Parcels 1922

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Item title reads - G.P.O. handling 110,000 parcels daily and if your Christmas gift does not arrive, it is because - you have used a tie-on label you have not addressed it clearly or you have not packed it properly. Mount Pleasant, Greater London.

L/S of sacks of parcels, more are added to...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
23774
Sort Number:
G 0939
Time in/Out:
01:01:46:00 / 01:03:16:00
Canister:
G 939
Film ID:
294.03
Issue Date:
21/12/1922

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