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For daily news, visit myroyalmail.com January 2012 17 UNFORGETTABLE YEAR AHEAD OUR special stamps for 2012 are already creating headlines. The stamp highlighting the extraordinary contribution made by codebreaker Alan Turing during the Second World War received media coverage around the world. It’s one of our ‘Britons of Distinction’ series, issued next month. The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, as well as BBC News online, carried stories on Turing, who worked as part of the team that cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park, and went on to help create the world’s first modern computer. This year’s stamps will mark an unforgettable year in the UK’s heritage, with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Our Roald Dahl stamps, out now, are creating huge excitement. Other stamps due out this year include Charles Dickens, Classic Locomotives of Scotland, Comics and British Fashion Designers. Wartime words last a lifetime A bundle of newsletters shows the extraordinary efforts Post Office bosses made to keep in touch with colleagues serving in World War II. David Thacker was researching his family tree when he found a heap of newsletters titled Northampton News. They contained letters penned by serving soldiers who used to work at Northampton Post Office. David’s family had them as his father was a sorting clerk and telegraphist before he joined the Royal Navy. Determined to boost morale, his boss Needham Smith and wife Gwen (pictured) co-edited the newspaper and Rare Post Office documents dating back to the 1920s have been uncovered in a retired postman’s cupboard. The papers, including rules, delivery records, rotation of duties and order books, were in danger of staying forgotten, until Ron Lake decided to clear out his spare room with his wife Susan – an indoor worker at Kilnfarm, Milton Keynes delivery office. Ron received the documents when he retired from Buckingham Post Office in 1998 after 42 years’ service. Ron says: ‘Finding them has brought back all my memories. It’s encouraged people to write in. Each letter contained anecdotes ranging from the mundane and humorous, to the tragic and painful. Soldier George Carter wrote in 1943: ‘When I received my first mail today since Ron’s rare finds Blast from the past...Ron and Susan with their discoveries interesting to read that many of the same rules from years ago – such as making sure you double check your mailbag for small parcels – still apply to this day.’ See the newsletters and an index of names leaving Blighty and at https://sites. found a copy of google.com/site/ the Northampton northamptonnews/ News, it was like a home breath of home. ‘I’m going quite alright now, although I got a bit of a smack a few weeks ago. I was a bit too near to a mortar and got a nice piece of scrap iron in the shoulder blade for my trouble.’ David has traced about 80 families of the letter writers but wants to contact more. He says: ‘It’s become much more than a hobby. It’s about connecting people to their long lost relatives.’ Trains of thought They once carried 20 million letters a day; now there are just a few surviving mail trains. Assistant Curator of The British Postal Museum & Archive Julian Stray gave an evening lecture on mail by rail. ‘It’s a specialist subject, but once you start engaging people with the wonderful stories, it wakes people up to just how interesting it is,’ says Julian. The first trial runs were in 1830. By the 1970s, 10,000 trains a day were carry ing mail. These Travelling Post Offices operated for 166 years until 2004. Watch online TV Integrated 3D ready Blu-ray player OR Play online games fOR fRee Key PS3 Peripherals Choice of internal hard drive size Become part of the action in a completely new way to play on PlayStation®. DUALSHOCK ® 3 wireless controller Move Starter Pack New Wireless Headset Blu-ray Remote HDMI Cable Wireless Keypad Visit PlayStation Rewards now to get exclusive Royal Mail employee discounts on many PlayStation products! http://royalmail.playstationrewards.co.uk Access key: PLAYSTATION3 “2”, “PlayStation”, “PS3” and “ ” are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. “ ” is a trademark of the same company. “Ô” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation. “Blu-ray Disc” and “ww” are trademarks. All rights reserved.
18 January 2012 Winners… Cumbernauld delivery office team took the trophy Footie fun A charity five-a-side regional football competition in Scotland raised £2,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. More than 20 teams took part in the event, supported by organisers and helpers, including referees and volunteer first aiders. Friendship in action Trevor Gillan, process engineer at Northern Ireland mail centre, travelled to Burkina Faso in west Africa with Christian charity Friends in Action. ‘This trip was about drilling for water, meeting the locals and making friends with them and improving their lives,’ he says. Bikes get new lease of life Two charities benefit from redundant Royal Mail bikes, with Re-Cycle receiving those from the Anglia, South East and London regions, and the rest going to The Krizevac Project in Malawi. Tim Shipley liaises with the charities. He says: ‘We’ve shipped more than 1,500 so far; they make a huge difference to communities that have so little.’ Pulling his weight Oldham postman Wayne Holroyd organised a truck-pull with postmen from the Uppermill, Greenfield and Dobcross sub- Post Office and Oldham delivery offices. Wayne says: ‘Two teams of 12 pulled two 7.5-ton Royal Mail trucks 150 metres. ‘We had a family fun event and hope to raise £2,000 towards life-saving cervical cancer treatment for my daughter. I’m grateful to everyone for taking part.’ Savage cycling A team of three from Swansea cycled a gruelling 300 miles in six days, conquering 13 of the Tour de France climbs. ‘It was a savage feat,’ says Huw Phillips, late shift manager at Swansea mail centre. Postman Josh Pasquantonio and retired door-keeper Alan Jones joined him. ‘Together with a golf day, we’ve reached our £2,000 target for Forces Children’s Trust.’ Mountains of cash Three peaks, four colleagues and £5,000 for the NSPCC. Those were the stats from the Three Peaks Challenge arranged by Alec Burns, regional fleet services manager, North West, with colleagues Mike Swinglehurst, Keith Thompson and Ian Preston, and retiree Bob Owens at the wheel. ‘We couldn’t have asked for better weather,’ says Alec. ‘We descended Ben Nevis at 10pm in glorious sunshine – it’s not often you can say that.’ Joan helps CRY Joan Mercer retired from her Post Office counter at Bolton in 2010 and, sadly, lost her 34-year-old son Alan that year. She’s raised £760 so far in his memory for the charities Cardiac Risk in the Young and Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. Goodwill is a one-stop shop Postwoman Maureen Magee’s charity shop at Northern Ireland mail centre has donated more than £25,000 to The Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice. Maureen sold cards, toys, decorations and wrapping paper in the run-up to Christmas. Maureen says: ‘The shop has been running since 2005, and every penny we make goes to the charity, which cares for children with lifelimiting and life-threatening conditions. ‘It runs with an honesty box, and people know the money will go to a worthy cause.’ Laura and Lorna’s leap for Libby Laura Sproat (left) and Lorna Vevers (right), postwomen from Lockerbie delivery office, conquered their fear of heights to raise £7,500 for Glasgow’s Yorkhill Children’s Foundation. In the middle of our picture are Libby Sloan with little sister Sadie, collecting the postwomen’s cheque. ‘Libby’s a colleague’s daughter who spent months in hospital because of a rare disorder called Guillian-Barre syndrome,’ says Laura. ‘The day of the skydive was wonderful. We will never forget it – a huge thank you to everyone who sponsored us.’ Great way to help Kind-hearted colleagues at Mount Pleasant mail centre raised thousands for London’s most famous children’s hospital. 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