Duncan Campbell-Smith

Duncan Campbell-Smith is the author of 'Masters of the Post, The authorised history of the Royal Mail' published by Penguin in 2012

How the Post Office lost its way

One of the many gems in the vast archives of the Post Office is a six-volume collection of letters from a Colonel Whitley in Head Office to the men (and not a few women) working across the country as postmasters. A former private secretary to King Charles II, Whitley effectively ran the nascent General Post