Bicycle Postman at Drapery Shop Post Office in Pitsea Basildon Postcard

zx445  A rare Pitsea postcard published in 1982 of this antique local post office, drapery stores, and postman arriving on his bicycle to collect the days post.  Locally published some 40 years ago it has a reverse that is almost replicating a first day cover - it is very specialist, rare, unused and mint.