Comments on: Stephen Armstrong, Whitechapel Postman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/19/stephen-armstrong-whitechapel-postman/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:33:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Anders Bellis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/19/stephen-armstrong-whitechapel-postman/#comment-1144787 Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:33:30 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=152554#comment-1144787 Dear Gentle Author,

of all the various kinds of pieces on Spitalfields Life, those I enjoy the very most are the pieces in the category Human Life. Ordinarily when one reads pieces about a person in books or magazines, this person will be some kind of celebrity, and to be quite honest, those pieces are often much the same, no matter what kind of celebrity is being portrayed.

Your portraits of people from everyday walks of life are so much more fascinating, touching, entertaining, and instructive. Also, these people are truly unsung heroes; very few are those who acknowledge their skills and abilities the way we are used to acknowledging the skills of rock stars and actors, but professions generally – and wrongly, if you ask me – regarded as “low” or “menial” also make huge demands on those performing them.

Thank you for giving us these insights into lives and professions that we would otherwise not get to read about.

All the best,
Bellis

]]> By: Carolyn Badcock https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/19/stephen-armstrong-whitechapel-postman/#comment-1123321 Tue, 20 Dec 2016 08:31:19 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=152554#comment-1123321 Delightful story of a wonderful man…… I love his contentment with his lot.

Happiest of Christmases to him, to you gentle author and all your readers from the Land Down Under!!

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/19/stephen-armstrong-whitechapel-postman/#comment-1123172 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:01:11 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=152554#comment-1123172 Solidarity with all postal workers (& good luck with the strike). Great article & Photographs.

]]> By: pauline taylor https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/19/stephen-armstrong-whitechapel-postman/#comment-1123140 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:38:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=152554#comment-1123140 I am always amazed at how good the postal service is at making sense of appallingly badly written and incorrect addresses, they seem to make a great effort and I wonder if the success is due to an actual person looking at the envelopes!! And don’t get me started on postcodes, ours is invariably wrong, at this time of the year especially; people just do not seem to understand them so numbers appear where there should be letters and vice versa , but it seems to make no difference to them arriving at the correct address. Well done for that PO say I.

Our postman at our shop always brings the post in and hands it to me with a smile and a comment as quite often books are returned from places like Moscow which he finds amusing even if we don’t. Most books are delivered safely but sometimes they come back from various parts of the world with all sorts of extra labels, stamps and hand written reasons for non- delivery on them, it doesn’t happen with UK parcels, so well done PO again.

Postman also tells me how hard the pounding the pavements is on his footwear and how useless the trainers provided are.

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2016/12/19/stephen-armstrong-whitechapel-postman/#comment-1123075 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:22:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=152554#comment-1123075 His ‘walk’ is described brilliantly here. Stephen is good at PR with his customers, he has style and must be an asset to the PO. I think we are some way off for a complete E Mail take over, keep plodding on Stephen you are doing fine. GA has given you a good visual job description which may be useful some day keep it safe. Poet John

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