WORK OF THE POST OFFICE

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23316, 30 April 1941, Page 11

WORK OF THE POST OFFICE

HOW DIFFICULTIES HAVE BEEN OVERCOME (8.0. W.) RUGBY,' April 28. The Postmaster-General -(Mr W. S. Morrison), giving a broadcast on the work of the Post Office in war time, ►said 40,000 skilled men had joined the armed forces and a Home Guard of 60,000 had been raised from the remaining ranks, . Mr Morrison continued: Our mails are of such bulk that t jy must, for the most part, travel by railway. If the railway is put out of gear by bombs, So is the mail. We, therefore, in the War have adopted a similar but more robust scheme for the mails, giving the railway* more margin and more chance to exercise their proved resource* and overcoming little incidents of this sort. x _ , ‘‘When necessary, Post Office road

transport is quickly, launched to help in tiding over special times of diffiCU “Tliere is a famous town in the west country which not so long ago .was Severely bob bed. One of the incidents of the night’s damage was the complete destruction of the post office, SS,i c "ctfLrT&af tSwn“Si St ss.fas M .a » district from which it c°B ec |s arrived punctually in London .on - the Same A %ne night last autumn a largepost office in the London.; ub JJ]2L2L& ft bv sea wa* completely, destroyed by bomb*, Next morning the usual deliveries of mail were made in Battersea.”