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Gosh, that takes me back, Admin and OC.

It was in the early 1970's when I did the Christmas post as a student temp.

They had offered me regular nights. (more pay).
I did a little letter sorting, much more parcel sorting, but mostly loading and unloading the rail parcel cars on the station in the middle of the night. (I would not have bumped into you, as this was in Leicester)

So, I never got to do delivery walks, which I would have liked, as I enjoy long early morning walks. No armband or free bus rides.

However I mention because:

Over a decade prior to this, I had also been working for the Post Office. (sort of, anyway it's too complicated to go into on here)

This was when the microwave network was being established, if you recall, Telstar, Post Office Tower etc.

Anyhow, this entailed working outside on exposed locations in winter, for which they graciously provided me with suitable clothing: oilskins, souwester and a huge greatcoat, etc.

The latter was a black military style garment. On the labels it had crown emblems, and in red the letters GPO.

Mostly, there were not busses in the locations we found ourselves working, but on the rare occasions that I caught a bus, whilst wearing that coat, I could never get the conductor to accept the bus fare which I proffered.