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Kōrero: Workforce composition

Post office jobs

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Post office jobs

State institutions were huge employers in New Zealand until the late 1980s, when many were either privatised or downsized. This 1976 poster shows some of the many jobs, ranging from postwoman to manager, available within the state-owned Post Office at that time.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-POST-OFFICE-1976-02

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, Workforce composition – Employers, employees and self-employed, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/22693/post-office-jobs (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, i tāngia i te 14 April 2010.