New Office Will Ease Pressure

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31863, 16 December 1968, Page 22

New Office Will Ease Pressure

At this time of the year the Post Office gets up more steam than a pressure cooker doing a Christmas pudding.

Today, the Post Office will ease the pressure of the Christmas mail rush by opening a new office in Armagh Street near the Manchester Street corner. Customers will be able to avail themselves of all but one of the numerous postal facilities. There will be plenty of bustle about the place. Tradesmen will be finishing off the interior of the renovated building. The Post Office has spent 850,000 converting the former motor car showroom into a smart efficient postal office. There will even be off-street parking available. There won’t be room for more than a few cars but they at leasl will be immune from parking tickets. There is entry to the Post Office from Armagh Street and

For the business community in the area 200 private boxes are available. Already 40 have been taken. The Chief Postmaster (Mr M. E. Wilson) says mail will be sorted into the boxes not 1 more than half an hour after it is available at the office in the Square. The sorting will not be done ' at Armagh on Saturday afternoons or Sundays. 1 The only facility not availI able at Armagh Street which is available at other Post I Offices is the acceptance of payments to the State Ad1 vances Corporation. The corporation has refused I to authorise payments through > that office although it has ac--1 cepted payment at the office I in the building formerly ■ owned by T. Armstrong and Company, Ltd. I Mr Wilson said the new I office would fill a need known

Oxford Terrace. Posting boxes are situated at the Armagh Street entrance. They will be cleared at regular intervals through out the day and late into the night.

to have existed for a long time in the area. The Postmaster at Armagh is Mr A. B. M. Harris who has been in charge at Armstrongs since 1960. There will be a total staff of 11.