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  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant while staging their nationwide two-day strike.

  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant while staging their nationwide two-day strike.

  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant while staging their nationwide two-day strike.

  • Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) occupy an official picket line outside the sorting office at Mount Pleasant while staging their nationwide two-day strike.

  • Speeding postal worker in the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.

  • Postal workers play table football in the canteen during a night shift at Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry

  • Cross-docking sign at goods-in for departing lorries taking nationwide Royal Mail post from DIRFT logistics park in Daventry

  • A Royal Mail lorry speeds up the darkening M1 motorway loaded with parcels and letters.

  • Yellow painted lanes on the floor of Sainsbury's 700,000 sq ft (57,500sq m) supermarket distribution depot at Waltham Point

  • Red clock hangs from warehouse roof of cross-docking area of of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry

  • Detail of the Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) operated by the Royal Mail at their Nine Elms sorting office Vauxhall, London. Developed in the mid-1990s it is the backbone of Royal Mail's system and Nine Elms is the biggest and most modern sorting office in Britain, employing 1,000 people and handling all post coming from/to south London: 1.1 million first-class items a day, 750,000 second class. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.

  • An aerial view overlooking the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres such as DIRFT.

  • Postal workers enjoy humour at the Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.

  • Letters about to be sorted by the Royal Mail operated Siemens Integrated Mail Processor operated at Nine Elms sorting office

  • Forklift lane stencilled on the floor of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.

  • Destination trolleys inside the Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.

  • Letters sorted by the Royal Mail operated Siemens Integrated Mail Processor operated at Nine Elms sorting office

  • Letter for Welsh MP Julie Morgan at the House of Commons sorted by the Royal Mail at Nine Elms sorting office.

  • Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.

  • The Royal Mail's Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) handling some of the 82 million items a day to 27 million UK addresses

  • Postal workers rest in the canteen during a night shift at Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.

  • An aerial view overlooking Processing at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Commercial postage of catalogues, junk mail and brochures pass through this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.

Photographed for the book 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' by Alain de Botton, the beleaguered Post Office is seen in at two locations (Nine Elms sorting office, London and the Logistics hub at DIRFT, in the Midlands), in 2007.
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