More from Raphael Tuck & Sons, posting the letter.

The series was entitled WRITE AWAY comic sketches, and this particular card had the caption, “Just in time to catch the post.”

Now there is no date on the card or the catalogue but the uniform of our postman was in use around 1911 which I think will be good enough.

It clearly fits with that last period of domestic servants which were to fall away after the Great War.

Of course the woman in our picture may well have been posting her own letter but equally it is possible that this belonged to her employer and neatly takes into two of the working people of this country.

Now I shan't go over the top in trying to make any points about the social context, other than to say it was one of many cards produced by Lance Thackery, who according to one source produced over 950 post card prints.

Many of which seem to have been marketed by Tuck & Sons.

Picture; “Just in time to catch the post,” from the series, WRITE AWAY, issued by Tuck DB, date unknown, courtesy of Tuck DB, http://tuckdb.org/