Posted at the POST OFFICE TOWER
Posted at the Post Office Tower
In the days when the Post Office was responsible for both the postal and the telephone service, letters collected from the Tower were franked "Posted at the Post Office Tower".
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On a weekday, the posting box at the Tower was emptied ten times during the day, such was the expected volume of mail.

Post Office Tower
Times of Collection
Monday to
Friday
  9-00 am
10-30 am
11-45 am
12-45 pm
  2-30 pm
  4-00 pm
  5-00 pm
  6-00 pm
  7-00 pm
  8-30 pm

 Saturday
  9-00 am
10-30 am
11-45 am
12-45 pm


Sunday
 5-30 pm


 Good Friday
Bank Holiday
 5-30 pm

Thursday before
Good Friday
 6-00 pm
LAST COLLECTION

Christmas Day
Boxing Day
NO COLLECTION


Post Office Tower Stamps
Post Office Tower 3d stamp Post Office Tower Stamps
The Post Office Tower 3d stamp (1965)-Abbott, printed by Harrison & Sons Ltd. Clive Abbott  born 1933 - He won a British Post Office design competition for this stamp - the first English stamp to carry the name of the artist and printer.

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