Happy Christmas to you.
The entire below was sent from Bristol to London arriving on Christmas Day, receiving a nice "B / RIS / TOL" handstamp and a London bishop mark of 25th December. There is a manuscript date inside of 23rd December 1758. The letter talks about dispatching some Deeds by Jamso's Bristol Stage Waggons directed to be left at the Rolls Coffee House.
It was also normal to send postcards as Greetings Cards as in the hand painted example below from 23rd December 1909.
At Christmas time other organisations provided special Christmas delivery services, as shown in this booklet of 12 labels from Bath Postal Museum (now sadly closed) in 1982.
The Scouts also provided a delivery service as shown by these envelopes from 1985-1987 from the Third Thornbury Scout Group.
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