1948 olympic games stamps sale

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Temporary Post Office facilities were provided at Torquay. A counter 18 feet long was installed and a posting box was erected near by. Poste Restante facilities were provided at all Games Post Offices and used extensively.

Business started soon after 8 a. Business was then quiet throughout the day. Those affixed to letters posted in the posting boxes in the Stadium grounds at Wembley were cancelled with a special Olympic Games commemorative cancellation stamp.

Consequently, the Olympic Post Office was thronged with people buying stamps and completing letters for the post and much more public office space than that provided was necessary at times, particularly on the first day. On the whole, however, the provision made for counter service was reasonably satisfactory.

About 40 per cent. A small public office was also provided in the Stadium itself, alongside the positions allotted to the several cable companies. This office was primarily for the convenience of press correspondents wishing to send messages to places in Europe served by Post Office telegraphs, but little use was made of the facility. The office was open only when events were in progress and for one hour before and after. The Organising Committee kept the Post Office informed of the location of the various teams for the re-direction of mail and cables.

About 3, letters per day were dealt with in this way ; there were about parcels in all. The main Olympic Post Office at Wembley was well sited in the Stadium grounds on one of the main approaches to the Stadium. It comprised a public office of about square feet, with a counter 29 feet long to accommodate six clerks, a public telephone hall of about square feet, a telegraph instrument room of about square feet, and several small rooms for clerical work, messengers and cloaks amounting to about square feet.

The busiest periods were the three hours before the afternoon session at the Stadium and the hour or so after the last event. Little business was done between 9 p. Temporary Post Office facilities were provided at Torquay. A counter 18 feet long was installed and a posting box was erected near by. Poste Restante facilities were provided at all Games Post Offices and used extensively.

Business started soon after 8 a. Business was then quiet throughout the day.