LEFT: The most imposing "structure" at the Marines' base on Guadalcanar in the post and telegraph office. Me...

Sorting Christmas mail at Base Post Office, Cairo

Post office at Yokohama

Capt J H Shelker, O I/C Cairo Base Post Office

World War II soldier sorting letters at Cairo Base post office

Post Office on the Honmachi Street

LEFT: Major-General A. A. Vandegrift (centre), commander of the United States Marines on Guadalcanar, confer...

New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Pacific; shows base post office staff in New Caledonia

Sorting letters for troops at the NZ Army Post Office in Cairo, Egypt

British Army post office in the Western Desert, North Africa

Piles of parcels in the NZ Army Post Office in Cairo, Egypt

Contents of damaged parcels stored at the NZ Army Post Office in Cairo, Egypt

Parcels to be sorted and carded at the NZ Army Post Office in Cairo, Egypt

SAGHALIEN ISLAND. THE MOST RECENT JAPANESE CAPTURE: THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST WINTER'S POST AT SAGHAIIEN

1 centime Alfonso XIII of Spain and view of the Post Office building in Madrid

Sapper J A Reynolds rewrapping damaged parcels at the NZ Army Post Office in Cairo, Egypt

Bays for checking and sorting letters at the Chief NZ Post Office in Cairo, Egypt, World War II - Photograph...

[Ruins after the great fire of Oct. 1871, Chicago - interior of Post Office]

Piles of parcels being sorted in the NZ Army Post Office in Cairo, Egypt

Chief NZ Post Office Cairo showing the checking of addresses and sorting of parcels for NZ Division, World W...

Targets hit by the Japanese during their recent raid on Darwin. Top, the airport, and lower, the Post Office...

Personnel checking addresses at the Chief NZ Post Office Cairo, Egypt, World War II - Photograph taken by Ge...

Kuwana: The Post Station at Tomita (Kuwana, Tomita tachiba no zu), from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido (Tokaido gojusan tsugi)," also known as the Tokaido with Poem (Kyoka iri Tokaido)

The Actors Bando Mitsugoro I as Hata no Kawakatsu (right), and Otani Hiroemon III as the Manservant (Yakko) Gansuke (left), in the Play Miya-bashira Iwao no Butai (Shrine Pillars on a Stone Base), Performed at the Morita Theater from the Fifteenth Day of the Seventh Month, 1773