Letters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy (Airgraphs get priority)
A cream panel in a blue and grey frame tells the public that airgraphs, the air-mail letter service to the forces, get priority over all other correspondence, are the cheapest form of air communication and cost 3d each. Only the advantages are listed: priority and price, with nothing on limits or delays.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- General Post Office (GPO crest); artist H. A. Rothholz (NARA); printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Multi Machine Plates Ltd.
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, War and the military
- 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 crest), c. 1939-1945. U.S. National Archives, Record Group 44 (NARA ID 44266760).
Text on the object
Letters to the Forces and the Merchant Navy Airgraphs get priority over all forms of correspondence. They are the cheapest form of air communication. Airgraphs cost 3d each PRINTED FOR H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE BY MULTI MACHINE PLATES LTD. LONDON E.C.4. 51-3736 P.R.D.304
