Posties’ paths: Britons who delivered mail by foot sought for new book

Author Alan Cleaver collecting stories of rural postal workers who walked miles each week, and the routes they took

The last surviving rural postal workers who delivered mail by foot are being sought for a forthcoming book celebrating their lives and mapping their often arduous daily journeys.

Delivering mail by foot ended in the countryside in 1970 with the adoption of postal vans, and it is now feared that the postal paths and the history of those who trod them are disappearing from living memory.