In Loving Memory:

Always Use the Postcode

You can shout across a valley
When your friend is standing by.
Smoke signals from a hill top
Can puff up to the sky.
Talking drums in Africa
May warn that foes are near.
But a letter is far better
When it comes from someone dear.

In past the stagecoach
Braved highwaymen and such
To carry mail and passengers
And keep our folk ‘in touch’.
But letters then were rarer
(Tho’ penned with flowing hand)
‘Cos families stayed together -
It’s easy to understand.

Now, always use the Postcode
When you’ve sealed the envelope.
It’s not a pointless exercise.
No – the G.P.O. can cope
But we can really help them
By always writing down
The letters and the numbers
Of the destination Town.

John Wentworth Standley

5th September 1926 – 1st January 2007