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    Poetry About the Post Office
    Poetry About the Post Office
    Poetry About the Post Office
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    Poetry About the Post Office

    By John Chenery

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    Few have waxed lyrical about the workings of the (British) Post Office as its empire of posts and telecommunications have changed over many decades. Here is an illustrated light-hearted poetic journey across some of its services and locations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateAug 25, 2019
    ISBN9780244510916
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      Poetry About the Post Office - John Chenery

      Poetry About the Post Office

      Poetry About the Post Office

      John Chenery

      Title Poem

      A store front at day Description automatically generated

      Photo: WHS/PO Pillar boxes (2019)

      The organisation of the Post Office was so vast

      As advances through the decades passed

      Postal, telephone and telegraph too

      All the services to connect you!

      Telegram, telex, and teletext

      Few knew what was coming next

      Datel and Datapost

      And much later an Internet host

      Fibre to the cabinet and the home

      Mobiles enabling you to roam!

      Separate companies run it now

      As one was deemed to have too much power.

      Copyright

      The words expressed in this book are solely those of the author. They are not intended to imply any endorsement from trading units of Royal Mail Group Ltd., Post Office Ltd., British Telecommunications Plc., Openreach Ltd., NS & I, or any of their associated companies.

      Copyright © 2019 John Chenery

      ISBN 978-0-244-51091-6

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the

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