These Post Office Telegraphs covers, they’re what ?90? years old, they’re lasting surprisingly well, aren’t they? I bet those metal BT ones don’t last as long.
Well, they’re not going to get many letters put in *there* if they don’t include a little slot.
Thought this was a malted milk
I think that about most infrastructure/buildings. I can’t really imagine any of it *lasting*. I mean, it might still physically be standing, but I imagine it would look horrendous after multiple decades of grime and dust etc.
I guess everything is just more disposable these days. I don’t know what of the 90s, say, might be left in 2080.
You don’t get much cash selling the non metal ones to scrap merchants
if you’ve lifted one up you would understand why they’ve lasted so long
The Post Office laid the first phone lines I believe, even the ones under the sea
Can you imagine
“Where do you work?”
“Post Office”
“What do you do there?”
“Deep sea welding”
Old ones are heavy as fuck but yeah the new metal ones filled with concrete are shit!!!! Sick of replacing them
Much like the cast-iron red post box, and telephone box come to think of it, these things were built to last.
Something we seem mostly incapable of nowadays.
Absolute units
Got a metal one at the end of my drive that cracked in half when my neighbour had some workmen in who drove over it with their van.
They weren’t that versatile. The cast iron frame of the lid tended to break or crack.
Hard to remove too, compared to modern lids.
Yep, I will confirm that, I work in the field, the new ones are crap and don’t hold so long, indeed they spark proof and lighter and easy to open, the GPO ones are a bastard to open or lift, I’ve seen a round one from 1936 marked GPO
Things were built to last, not like the planned obsolescence that is designed into every made nowadays, gotta get those repeat sales somehow huh?
Survivorship bias.
Go to some run down ex soviet city and you’ll be skipping over covers that are now just a single bit of rebar.
Old Man Shouts at Cloud in full effect
These always make me think of those Malted Milk biscuits
Better materials were used, today its all about cheapness, speed and wheight (carriage costs)
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Well, they’re not going to get many letters put in *there* if they don’t include a little slot.
Thought this was a malted milk
I think that about most infrastructure/buildings. I can’t really imagine any of it *lasting*. I mean, it might still physically be standing, but I imagine it would look horrendous after multiple decades of grime and dust etc.
I guess everything is just more disposable these days. I don’t know what of the 90s, say, might be left in 2080.
You don’t get much cash selling the non metal ones to scrap merchants
if you’ve lifted one up you would understand why they’ve lasted so long
The Post Office laid the first phone lines I believe, even the ones under the sea
Can you imagine
“Where do you work?”
“Post Office”
“What do you do there?”
“Deep sea welding”
Old ones are heavy as fuck but yeah the new metal ones filled with concrete are shit!!!! Sick of replacing them
Much like the cast-iron red post box, and telephone box come to think of it, these things were built to last.
Something we seem mostly incapable of nowadays.
Absolute units
Got a metal one at the end of my drive that cracked in half when my neighbour had some workmen in who drove over it with their van.
They weren’t that versatile. The cast iron frame of the lid tended to break or crack.
Hard to remove too, compared to modern lids.
Yep, I will confirm that, I work in the field, the new ones are crap and don’t hold so long, indeed they spark proof and lighter and easy to open, the GPO ones are a bastard to open or lift, I’ve seen a round one from 1936 marked GPO
Things were built to last, not like the planned obsolescence that is designed into every made nowadays, gotta get those repeat sales somehow huh?
Survivorship bias.
Go to some run down ex soviet city and you’ll be skipping over covers that are now just a single bit of rebar.
Old Man Shouts at Cloud in full effect
These always make me think of those Malted Milk biscuits
Better materials were used, today its all about cheapness, speed and wheight (carriage costs)
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