I am on War Work, Do Not Hinder Me! Send Your Greetings by Letter
A smiling line-drawn telegram messenger rides a bicycle inside a large yellow 'Post Office Telegram' form, above the plea 'I am on War Work, Do not hinder me! Send your greetings by letter'. Calling the telegram 'war work' lends wartime urgency to a request to send fewer greetings telegrams, the transfer tell.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- General Post Office (GPO), artist Berger, printed for HMSO by Multi Machine Plates Ltd., London
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
General Post Office (GPO), artist Berger, printed for HMSO by Multi Machine Plates Ltd., London. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), World War II Foreign Posters, NAID 44266656.
Text on the object
POST OFFICE TELEGRAM I am on War Work, Do not hinder me! Send Your greetings by letter [signature:] Berger GPO PRD 303 PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4. 51-3692
