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    Main line Travelling Post Office run to mark 85th anniversary of Night Mail?

    Aug 05, 2019 1 minute
    CLIVE HANLEY

    “THIS is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order…”

    W H Auden’s opening lines to 1936’s evocative GPO documentary film Night Mail about the work of the Travelling Post Office (TPO) are

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