TRAINING SCHOOL

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

TRAINING SCHOOL

The spacious area above the new post office in Armagh Street will be given over to the training of clerical staff in suburban and country offices throughout the South Island. For a long time it has been the practice of the Post Office to assemble young staff members and instruct them on the tremendous range of work they have to undertake. The training is considered vital to the correct running of suburban and country offices where the staff may be few or even on their own. The school will equip staff to handle any transaction provided by the Post Office—-

from savings bank procedure to the registration of motorvehicles. A glance at the training syllabus reveals the amount of information a Post Office employee has to have at his fingertips. He has to be able to handle money like a bank teller, guard mail like a watchdog, calculate as accurately as an adding machine. He must be thoroughly familiar with cheques and the terms relating to them—payee, drawee, exchange, domicile, endorsements, stamp duty. He must be able to send money order telegrams, know I

code words, calculate charges and commission. His general knowledge of his work requires that he should be able to handle overseas money orders, knowing the limits permits and statements. He has to be familiar with many other details that do not come before the attention of the public—handling departmental correspondence, filling stamp vending machines, paying money to other Government departments, receiving and checking mails. How to handle all these matters will be explained in I detail to staff at the new I training school