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Story: Mail and couriers

Sorting mail by hand, 1970s

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Sorting mail by hand, 1970s

More than 25,000 people were employed by the New Zealand Post Office in the early 1970s, when this photograph was taken of the sorting room at Wellington central post office.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1973/5575A/11A

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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How to cite this page

Tim Shoebridge, Mail and couriers – Mail in the 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23058/sorting-mail-by-hand-1970s (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tim Shoebridge, published 12 April 2010.