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Round Robin Toy Appeal For Christmas

1987 , Peterborough (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 76896

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Visit to the Peterborough Royal Mail depot where some Christmas parcels are falling apart.

Exterior of the Royal Mail Parcels Concentration Office at Peterborough on a rainy day. The centre serves much of the Anglia TV region and in mid-November it is handling 600,000 parcels a week. As the Christmas season approaches, in what the staff call “heartbreak corner”, manager Alan Lynch shows examples of badly wrapped parcels including Christmas gifts which are coming apart in the post. He explains that staff will recover what remains of the parcel, place it in a clear plastic bag and send it on to its destination, so long as they can read the address. He shows some examples of well-wrapped parcels with no loose ends. The reporter was Greg Barnes for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. The Anglia TV data records that the Post Office will be delivering parcels free of charge for the Anglia TV “Round Robin” toy appeal 1987.

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Parcels; Royal Mail; Post Office; Charity appeals; Toys

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Round Robin Toy Appeal For Christmas

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