Reflections from an old timer in Paris: Les PTT
Reflections from an old timer in Paris: Les PTT
One area in which France changed massively in the years I have lived here, is the Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones, which were known collectively as Les PTT. The period from the pneumatique, public phone booths and boxes, and several postal deliveries a day, to the age of the Internet and the mobile phone, seems to have passed in the blink of an eye.
I regret to this day never having actually sent or received a pneumatique before it was suspended in March 1984. I remember such systems in department stores such as Harrods in London, where I once worked as a student. In Paris it was an ingenious and rapid intra-city delivery system, with the message arriving at the closest terminal to the receiver’s address and then being delivered by courier.
Of course, in the event of an urgent piece of news, be it good or bad, there was always the telegram. I have kept many of them, congratulating me on the birth of a chil…
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