Stepping back in Times: When posties were on bikes of the pedal-power kind

By Mike Cashman
April 6 2019 - 9:00am
Tamworth's first stand-alone Post Office, the 1865 Post & Telegraph Office in Fitzroy Street, occupying the same block as today's Tamworth Post Office.
Tamworth's first stand-alone Post Office, the 1865 Post & Telegraph Office in Fitzroy Street, occupying the same block as today's Tamworth Post Office.

I'm old enough to remember when bicycle-riding "posties" blew their whistle when delivering mail. However, I'm not able to remember when the postman rode a horse on his rounds.

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