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The Vectis postal service was a postal service set up during the national postal strike of the United Kingdom in 1971. This was amongst a number of local delivery services which flourished during the strike.[citation needed] The service was set up by a group of Ryde business men, led by R. W. Cawdell, C.C., who acted as head postmaster for the service. It covered an area encompassing the whole of the Isle of Wight. At peak the service handled over 1500 items of mail daily.[1][better source needed]
The national postal strike ended on 8 March 1971,[2] and with it the local service.[citation needed]
^"A brief History of the Isle of Wight, plane crash in 1957 & 1962 and the postal strike of 1971". india-whisky.org.uk. Archived from the original on 24 December 2009.
^"1971: Post strike ends with pay deal". BBC. 8 March 1971. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020.
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