Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:18:51 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ptatchett was Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> dalek_cag at yahoo.com 4/26/2005 2:07:41 PM >>>
>Absolutely.  I esp. liked the golem letter carriers
>and parole officers.  And the postal masons.  "Is this
>the unfranked man..."  I just wish the US edition had
>the nifty philatelic end papers like the UK edition.

Coming August 2006 (yes, 2006 !):
Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007
(isbn: 0575077239)

The Amazon.co.uk description:
"The Post Office: this musty, dusty and sh***y organisation was jolted
back into life in GOING POSTAL, 2004's Number One Discworld bestseller,
and out in MMP in 2005. Hidebound and rulebound, the Post Office is
creaking towards a brave new world of efficiency - and it may even
deliver the mail, too. Now that it has been jolted back into life, it is
to become an established feature of Discworld life in the future - so
established that in December 2004 it will open a branch in Wincanton in
Somerset. Discworld stamps are already selling like ... stamps! But like
all bureaucracies, the Ankh-Morpork Post Office has its rules and
regulations and these, together with the history of this once-great
department, are highlighted and parodied in the Ankh-Morpork Post Office
Handbook. * that's of the pigeon guano type, of course."

mjw