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  • Postal workers enjoy humour at the Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • Speeding postal worker in the processing depot of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Destination trolleys inside the Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • Forklift lane stencilled on the floor of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • Postal workers rest in the canteen during a night shift at Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England.
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  • 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.
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  • Cross-docking sign at goods-in for departing lorries taking nationwide Royal Mail post from DIRFT logistics park in Daventry
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  • Postal workers play table football in the canteen during a night shift at Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry
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  • Red clock hangs from warehouse roof of cross-docking area of of Royal Mail's DIRFT logistics park in Daventry
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  • Warehouse car park landscape at night at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire
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  • The Earl Spencer, brother to Diana Princess of Wales, meets the public allowed in to the family ancestral home, Althorp, the year after his sister's death in 1997, on 21st May 1998, in Althorp, Northamptonshire, England.
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  • Tesco supermarket facilities at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire
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  • Warehouse car park landscape at night at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire
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  • Seen from the middle of the road, an empty highway landscape is seen at night alongside a giant generic warehouse wall at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. The tarmac is dark and the newly-painted white painted lines stand out. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • The form of a giant generic warehouse glows from ambient light at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bare trees without foliage are seen in the foreground on this cold winter night. We see the building low in the picture and the sky graduates from light into near darkness. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • Pointing towards the viewer and the bottom of the picture near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow directs traffic flow at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse walls shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • The Earl Spencer, brother to Diana Princess of Wales, meets the public allowed in to the family ancestral home, Althorp, the year after his sister's death in 1997, on 21st May 1998, in Althorp, Northamptonshire, England.
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  • Alongside the A5 highway, an industrial landscape is illuminated in light from roadside street-lighting. Reeds are in the foreground in front of a giant generic warehouse that glows from its own territory. Grass is next to the crash-barrier and faint mist is seen on this cold winter night at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this unique logistics location.
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  • Moving fast past a farmhouse building on a busy UK A road, unseen traffic leaves its light trails on an otherwise dark winter night near the giant DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Some rooms are lit in this remote residence which show signs of occupation. Red tail lights from cars, lorries and trucks streak by with tall traces of container traffic leaves light on the picture, diagonally leaving their mark. It is a very busy highway on which to own a home but this infrastructure is a vital route that keeps Britain's logistics moving across the country 24/7.
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  • In front of empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from right to left in the foreground at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. A bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining  on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • In front of an industrial doorway with a safety handrail and near empty parking bay markings, a stencilled arrow points from left to right at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Bright light glows from the warehouse wall, shining on to the car park creating an almost daylight landscape. This 365 acre site off Junction 18 of the M1 motorway is a hub for road, rail and service infrastructure, some 2.3m sq.ft. of distribution and manufacturing floorspace had been constructed by 2004 and occupiers including Tesco?s, Tibbett & Britten plc, Ingram Micro, Royal Mail, the W.H. Malcolm Group, Eddie Stobart Ltd, Wincanton and Exel, have been attracted to this logistics location.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The Royal Mail's Siemens Integrated Mail Processor (SIMP) handling some of the 82 million items a day to 27 million UK addresses
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  • No-right turn traffic sign alongside the Mothercare facilities at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry.
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  • Lights from industrial night traffic speeding at 25mph through the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry
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  • Lights from industrial night traffic speeding through the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry,
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  • Lights from industrial night traffic speeding on the A5 at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry,
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  • Lights from industrial night traffic speeding on the A5 at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry,
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  • Heavy Goods Vehicle sign stencilled in a lorry park at the DIRFT warehouse logistics park in Daventry.
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  • A Royal Mail lorry speeds up the darkening M1 motorway loaded with parcels and letters.
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  • Seen through its windscreen, a car travels at speed along the M1 motorway behind an Eddie Stobart lorry.
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  • Photographer and former picture editor, Christopher Angeloglou outside his home in Scaldwell, Northamptonshire.
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  • Photographer and former picture editor, Christopher Angeloglou outside his home in Scaldwell, Northamptonshire.
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  • DIRFT Logistics Park, Northamptonshire.<br />
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Specially selected text by Alain de Botton that accompanies a limited edition Lambda digital framed print created for an exhibition commissioned by and staged at The Museum of the History of Science in Oxford and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The text is copyright Alain de Botton, 2009.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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