Letters for the Forces in the Middle East and Beyond
Three tilted cards list the Airgraph (3d.), Air Letter (6d.) and Air Mail Letter (1s. 3d. for half an ounce) with a line that the thin postcard service is discontinued except to Malta. The Airgraph card alone carries the claim 'Cheapest and quickest', a one-sided comparison with no figures; the rest is a plain price and service notice.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- General Post Office (GPO), printed for HM 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)
UK Government (Crown copyright expired). Poster held by the US National Archives, NAID 44266758, local identifier 44-PF-274.
Text on the object
LETTERS FOR THE FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND BEYOND AIR-GRAPH Always by Air. Cheapest and quickest. 3d. AIR LETTER Normally by Air. A sealed letter on the new thin form. 6d. AIR MAIL LETTER Partly by Sea and partly by Air. Suitable for enclosures. 1s. 3d. for 1/2 oz. THE THIN POSTCARD SERVICE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED EXCEPT TO MALTA Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Multi Machine Plates Ltd. London E.C.4. 51-3110 GPO PRD 281
