This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 December 1962, "Twenty-five extra staff are at present helping the terrific flow of Christmas mail in the mail-room of the Palmerston North Post Office. There are si...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 19, 1962
This image was taken by The Manawatu Evening Standard on 21 December 1962, but did not run in the paper.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 21, 1962
This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. It was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. This image must come from 1905, before the clock face had been installed. The cl...
Creator: Muir and Moodie
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1905
This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. It was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. It was originally built with a clock tower but this was removed in 1942 for safe...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1943 to circa 1949
Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. History of Christmas time at Palmerston North Chief Post Office from 1906 to 1988. Many people, including schoolchildren, were employed at the Post Office at Christmas time as...
Creator: Leanne Croon Hickman
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 27, 2021
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 14 December 1960 "Have you ever wondered how the post-mark is put on your letters? On the right in this photograph is the machine which performs this task. Capable of po...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960-12-14T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 1 August, 1959. "The Vienna Boys' Choir arrived in Palmerston North this morning and were dispersed to their billets. The photograph shows the boys receiving mail from ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1959-08-01T00:00:00+00:00
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 19 December 1962, "Hundreds of incorrectly addressed letters for which the mailroom staff at the Palmerston North Post Office hope to find owners. Mr H. B. Crawford, in...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: December 19, 1962
This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 11 September 1958: "One of the first 10 letters to cross the Tasman Sea by-air. It was carried in the Southern Cross from Sydney to Christchurch by Sir Charles Kingsford...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Date: September 11, 1958
"Postal History of the Manawatu: Outline and list of offices" is a manuscript by Robin Startup, produced for the Postal History Society of New Zealand.
It includes a short history of post in the Manawatū, and a list of Post Offices and Telephone ...
Creator: R M Startup
Place: Manawatū
Date: July 1982
Workers sorting mail at the Palmerston North post office.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
Mail delivery staff pose for a photograph with their bicycles at the Post Office in Palmerston North.
Creator: Manawatū Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
Michael Kopytko delivering mail in Palmerston North. He would later take a job as a mail sorter.
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1950s
Bulls Post Office was built between 1905 and 1912. It was demolished in 1982, and a new Post Office constructed.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Bulls
Date: July 25, 1981
Built in 1906, the Post Office on the corner of The Square and Main Street was Palmerston North’s fourth In 1988, when Telecom and Postbank became separate entities, the building ceased to be the Post Office. It currently operates as a restaurant...
Creator: G W Shailer
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1927
This photograph shows the stretch of pavement outside the Chief Post Office on Main Street East. This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. The original 1906 building was extended towards Broadway and up Mai...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. The original 1906 building was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. It was originally built with a clock tower but this was ...
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Corner of Main Street and the Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1981
This image shows postal workers sorting packages for delivery around New Zealand. They workers are unidentified, the location is thought to be in Palmerston North GPO.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This Post Office was built in 1911.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Shannon, Manawatu
Date: 1981
Colin of Courier Post delivers an essential package during the COVID-19 pandemic. To minimize contact the parcel is placed on the ground and no longer requires a signature. He's busy but calm.
Creator: Anthony Behrens
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00+00:00
This image shows postal workers sorting packages for delivery around New Zealand. They workers are unidentified, the location is thought to be in Palmerston North GPO.
Creator: Manawatu Evening Standard
Place: Main Street, Palmerston North
Date: 1960s
This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. The original 1906 building was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. It was originally built with a clock tower but this was ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1950 to circa 1959
Refer Fitzherbert East Aokautere School and District 1889-1989, 9 34.
Creator: Lynette Spencer
Place: Aokautere, Palmerston North
Date: 1989
This photograph came from a small photograph album that belonged to Mrs R Andrews of Rangitikei House. This photograph bears the caption, "P.O. Palmerston North 14-1-28". The photograph is taken looking down one side of the railway line that used ...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: January 14, 1928
A new Post Office for Palmerston North was completed and opened in 1906, on the site of previous one, on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The building was later extended along Main Street, and the tower was removed after the 1942 Wairarap...
Creator: Unknown
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1920
This building was Palmerston North’s fourth Post Office, operating from 1906-1988. The original 1906 building was extended towards Broadway and up Main Street in the early 1920s and in 1937. It was originally built with a clock tower but this was ...
Creator: W R Davies
Place: Palmerston North
Date: circa 1963
A photographic series prepared by the Prime Minister’s Department in 1947 to attract British migrants. The Evans family of 5 Mansford Place, Palmerston North were selected to show the living conditions of a typical New Zealand family. Betty Evans ...
Creator: New Zealand Government
Place: 5 Mansford Place, Palmerston North
Date: 1947
A new Post Office for Palmerston North was completed and opened in 1906, on the corner of Main Street and The Square. The building was later extended along Main Street, and the tower was removed after the 1942 Wairarapa earthquake, as it was consi...
Creator: Unknown
Place: The Square, Palmerston North
Date: 1906
Letter from the Tadeusz Zażuliński, Minister of Poland, stationed at the Legation de Pologne in Cairo, Egypt, to Mrs Ann Jacques of the Polish Army League. The letter thanks the Polish Army League for gift parcels. The Polish Army League, founded ...
Creator: Tadeusz Zażuliński, Minister of Poland
Place: Egypt
Date: April 27, 1942
This postage stamp was produced as part of the celebrations for the 100th commemoration of Palmerston North.
Creator: NZ Post
Place: Palmerston North
Date: 1971