The General Post Office (GPO) was the postal system and telecommunications carrier for the United Kingdom until its dissolution in 1969. This archive contains material from before this time, postal museum brochures, and more modern documents. Contents: Three copies of The Post Office Guide (Aug. 1940) (Sep. 1937) (Oct. 1947); a GPO booklet on Belfast Lists of Streets (1959); a Post Office Magazine from Dec. 1962; different ‘Green Paper’ books on various GPO topics; a Post Office Telegraphs Office Code Book (1894); ‘Het Nederlandse PTT Museum’ a brochure in Dutch (1994); National Postal Museum Review of 1992, 1993, 1995; many photocopies of a ‘Foreign & Colonial Parcel Post’ Certificate from 1903; a subsequent real certificate, unknown if it’s from 1903; The Post Office Archives Brochure; a typescript entitled ‘The Messenger Box as a Distinctive of Foot-Messengers (1960s); ‘Meet Royal Mail in N. Ireland’ poster (1992); empty envelopes addressed to W.S. Cormack (one 1906); a British Postal Order payslip (1967); Post Office Telegraphs ‘Charges for Telephone Trunk Wire Conversations not exceeding Three Minutes’ booklet (1897): Rules for Postmasters and Sub-postmasters regarding Ulster Savings certificates’ booklet (Dec. 1923); National Postal Museum tourist brochure (1988); Notice. Presentment of New Post Road from Ballymoney to Coleraine, Aug. Godby and Henry R. Paine.
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