Letters from a Postman

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Dearest Reader</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Millions of posties have carried billions of letters across hundreds of years and yet nobody has ever delivered a single word to describe a collection of them. But then just what <em>is</em> a postie in the 21st century?</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>After one Christmas on the job almost sends him packing Tom Dymond embarks on a year of wondering and wandering through the streets of Bristol. As the pressures on a modern day mailman pull him in two directions he asks what it means to be a good postie and why there isn't a word for a collection of them? Maybe if he can find the word he can find the meaning.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Through scorching summers freezing winters and biting dogs he seeks the appropriate phrase all the while seeking the appropriate letterboxes. Is it a perambulation of posties? A pillar perhaps? A strike more likely? This year of letters exposes the carnage and comedy of the sorting office gives voice to the messengers of the nation and reveals the life of a postie in a way never heard before.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>In <em>Letters from a Postman</em> Tom Dymond tucks the reader into his satchel and takes them on his daily rounds. If you like a travel book with a twist a postie with a point and a bundle of letters about the British then the enclosed is undoubtedly for you.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Yours Sincerely</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>P.</p>