Discussion of the controversial privatisation of Royal Mail – and what this will mean for those sending, sorting, and delivering letters –  rumbles on in the newspapers. On a happier note, the Guardian yesterday featured an album of pictures of things from the British Postal Museum and Archive, which is hoping to raise enough funds to open a museum in London by 2016. These artefacts, including a telegram announcing the sinking of the Titanic, and a photograph of the Beatles opening fan mail, are suggestive of the rich mine of material texts in this archive – and when Royal Mail is no longer in public hands, a museum will be an important monument to this centuries-old institution.