Show HANDLING LETTERS some idea of the big force required in the great act P pct office sir henry tanner architect in his of 0 works gaie an address before the royal in british architects in london recently describing in detail the new general post officio to be known as king edwards building As giving some idea 0 the magnitude of the work there lie he mentioned that the removal ot of provin provincial malls and of the parcels of 0 mount pleasant railroad to the main mat building required ot of the force of 2850 men leaving only 2150 in the old building but there were at the date ot of removal to king edw r rs s building ot of all ranks including 1400 postmen meanwhile the force at mount pleasant had increased from 2850 2350 to these numbers were exclusive of 0 the temporary tempora rv force employed at christmas 9 the tha work dealt with per week was as follows five and a halt half vows ons ot of letters etc delivered in E C district and to other districts of london and by certain provincial malls and dispatched to foreign countries and the colonies in all weighing wel shing bing about tons with regard to the cost cos t f the new building he found that it if bult built in the ordinary way with steel construction the approximate cost exclusive of fittings etc would be but buelt 14 it in reinforced concrete would probably suffice the latter figure lied had proved to be correct so that there had been an approximate s iving of and apart frons from this considerable space had been gained by the great reduction in wall the general post office lias has furnished statistics ct cf the yuletide traffic showing that all re corli exceeded in the huge 1910 christmas post bag the great office is equipped with the very latest appliances and all were working up to their fullest capacity during christmas week to suit the great length of the building electric conveyers have been installed A new and ingenious system for sorting newspapers was also successfully tried |