GPO Handling 110,000 Parcels (1922)

Item title reads - . handling 110,000 parcels daily and if your Christmas gift does not arrive, it is because - you have used a tie-on label you have not addressed it clearly or you have not packed it properly. Mount Pleasant, Greater London. L/S of sacks of parcels, more are added to the pile, the camera pans across postal workers emptying them out onto a table. M/S of people sorting through the various parcels on a big table and throwing them into different baskets. Camera continues to pan across to the baskets. Intertitle - ’Remember! - Pack securely and address clearly if you don’t want your parcel to be amongst these.’ L/S of two men stood at a long table of packages which have fallen apart, M/S as they rewrap them with brown paper. Note: there is an identical story entitled - ’Xmas Rush Begins’ with different title card on *PM0440* - check for best quality - EB 2001. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCU