From Cheshire to Cornwall, Lincoln to the Rhondda, a round-Britain tour via British Rail's parcel service.

A bike to Cheshire and a vacuum cleaner to South Wales, a cheque to Lincoln, a paper to a Cornish hotel, vital research equipment to Manchester. They all get from A to B via British Rail's parcel service. This is a late addition, by British Transport Films, to the tradition of the GPO's Night Mail (1936) and BTF's own Oscar-nominated Thirty Million Letters (1963): public service promo as large-canvas portrait of a nation interconnected by public utilities.

Promotional film of the British Rail Parcel Service by way of illustrating the
story of five different consignments over a twenty-four hour period. These
are a schoolboy in Cheshire being sent a new bicycle; a housewife in Rhondda
Valley awaiting the arrival of a new vacuum cleaner; a man in Lincoln
expecting an insurance cheque; a tourist in Cornwall waiting for his daily
newspaper to arrive at his hotel; and a research scientist who urgently needs
some equipment in Manchester.