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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 170189, member: 25"]Graves was one of the biggest early mail order retailers in Britain. </p><p><br /></p><p>When the Post Office refused to collect packages in bulk from the main depot, Graves sent all his workforce down to the main Post Office with one package each to queue up and post them one by one, when the package was sent the employee would get another one and rejoin the massive queue.</p><p><br /></p><p>After a day of this the Post Office resumed bulk collections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 170189, member: 25"]Graves was one of the biggest early mail order retailers in Britain. When the Post Office refused to collect packages in bulk from the main depot, Graves sent all his workforce down to the main Post Office with one package each to queue up and post them one by one, when the package was sent the employee would get another one and rejoin the massive queue. After a day of this the Post Office resumed bulk collections.[/QUOTE]
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