Parcel Collection (page 2)

Christmas card in the shape of a furry muff, open to reveal a verse and a rural winter scene. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Chief office of the parcel mail 1849
Mail coaches busy outside the main office in Catherine Street, in the Strand, London. Date: 1846

Horse-drawn parcel mail 1849 Horse-drawn parcel mail service 1849
A horse-drawn parcel mail service of 1846. Date: 1846

Knot porter 1746
Knot porter from London, carrying lots of parcels on his back. 1746

Parcel mail porter 1846
Parcel mail porter in London. Date: 1846

Boeing 727 N490US
Boeing 727-51C N490US (msn 18898) of Northwest Airlines, last used by United Parcel Service (UPS), from 1992, before being withdrawn from use and scrapped. Date: 1970s

London Parcels Delivery Company 1862
London Parcels Delivery Company, head office in the Rolls-building, Fetter-lane, London. The yard with uproar of bustle and activity, lie waiting for their turn of duty. Date: 1862

Errand Girl - circa 1905
An errand girl Date: circa 1905

WAREHOUSE IN LONDON / DORE
Working in the warehouses at Pickle Herring Street, London. Date: 1870

Christmas card in the shape of a parcel, with a delivery boy carrying a basket of geese. Date: 1890

Cupids examining red hearts on a New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Old Bill and Co. October 1940
" I ll let yet get away with it this time, but remember! I got a front door, h and a knocker!" Bruce Bairnsfather jokes that the damage inflicted on homes by German air raids has made it

Princess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose
Princess Elizabeth (future Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret leaving a Forfar bookshop during a shopping outing with their mother in August 1935. Date: 1935

Parcel delivered, c. 1800
Delivering a parcel to a man in the street, c. 1800. Date: C.1800

Pears Soap advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for Pears soap showing a mother and her daughters wrapping up a bar of the famous soap to be sent to her boy at the front. Date: 1915

Fortnum & Masons advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for quintessential British department store, Fortnum & Mason and its service for sending boxes of food to the front during the First World War

Decca gramophone advertisement, 1917
Advertisement for Decca gramophones, ideal for use at the Front during the Great War due to it being self-contained, portable and having no loose parts

Carter Paterson & Co. stables and depot. Parcel deliveries

A Second World War Red Cross food parcel
The contents of a food parcel dispatched for Christmas in 1944. 180, 000 packages were sent out, many to prisoners of war in Germany, by the Red Cross and St John Organisation

Swiss Postman
In an Alpine village, the postman hands a parcel to two women in regional costume

Parcels Delivery Cart - Metropolitan Parcels Delivery Company. circa 1830

French Railway Alphabet - E for Enregistrement des colis (registration of packages). 19th century

The Postman by Charles Robinson
The Postman heavily laden with a sack on his back and holding a parcel as he arrives at a gate greeted by two young girls. Date: 1906

The War Budget - Christmas 1915
Front cover of The War Budget, Christmas 1915, showing a British soldier sitting in a trench next to a brazier as he opens a parcel of Christmas food sent from home. Date: 1915

Brighton Parcel Mail Coach. early 19th century

Christmas card in the shape of medicines -- Seidlitz Powders and Liver Pills (back). (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Occupations 1882 - Parcel Delivery Man. 1882

Poster, Post That Parcel. 20th century

Delivery man with parcels on a Victorian Christmas card
Delivery man with parcels on a Victorian cutout Christmas card. circa 1890s

Greetings card in the shape of a footman with a parcel
Greetings card in the shape of a footman delivering a parcel. Date: circa 1890s

Woman with holly and present on a Victorian Christmas scrap
Woman with holly and a present on a Victorian Christmas scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Snowman and snow woman on a New Year postcard
Snowman, snow woman and their snow dog on a New Year postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Cupid and piglet on a French New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Father Christmas on a Victorian scrap
Father Christmas with tree and presents on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Father Christmas and girl on a Victorian scrap
Father Christmas and a little girl on a Victorian scrap. Date: circa 1890s

Industrial Revolution. Enclousure. Process that ended the ancient system of arable farming in open fields. It changed into fenced land entitled for one or more owners

Around Fier. Rural scenary. Republic of Albania
Rural scenery around the ruins of Apollonia. Fier. Republic of Albania

Little Folk Misfitz - Daffy Dawn Dilly. circa 1910

Christmas card with dogs and fireplace
Handmade Christmas card with dogs and fireplace, and a string to pull to make Santa Claus appear. (2 of 2) circa 1890s

Addressing a Parcel
If you have occasion to write an address on a parcel, it will prove much easier and less prone to error if it is written in pencil first. Date: 1940s

Gpo Parcel Sorting
The General Post Office, London : sorting parcels at Mount Pleasant Date: 1939

Delivery man on a Christmas card, holding a large basket upside down and spilling the contents, including a goose, a bottle of wine and several apples. Date: circa 1890s

Cartoon, the Christmas parcel, WW1
Cartoon, the Christmas parcel. A woman writes a note to go with her Christmas parcel to her husband, away fighting at the Front

The Strand Magazine - Christmas Crackers
Two pages from The Strand, part of an article about the manufacture of Christmas Crackers at Messrs Tom Smith and Co, of Wilson Street, Finsbury, London

Girl with an Xmas parcel. Merry Christmas. Girl in red in snowy Xmas scene with a large parcel, surrounded by rabbits. Artist: Agnes Richardson Date: circa 1917

Scouts landing food, Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece
Scouts landing food at Argostolion, Kefalonia, Greece. Four earthquakes hit the island in August 1953, destroying many buildings; the scouts helped with clearing up and humanitarian aid activities

Daddys Christmas Dinner by Samuel Begg, WW1
Illustration for the ILN 1916 Christmas number showing a mother and her children packing a special parcel to be sent to her husband at the front

Comforts for the Royal Flying Corps, WW1
Ladies forming an aid committee, headed by Lady Henderson, the wife of the Commander of the Royal Flying Corps, packing comforts for flying men

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