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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
246
5.
The
Money-order
Office,
occupying
a
separate
building
in
Aldersgate
Street,
takes
charge
of
the
whole
of
the
money-order
business
of
the
country,
in
addition
to
doing
an
enormous
amount
of
work
as
a
money-order
office
for
the
metropolis.
Of
course,
everything
relating
to
this
particular
branch
of
post-office
business,
and
also
some
part
of
the
savings'
bank
accounts,
pass
through
this
channel.
Each
provincial
postmaster
sends
a
daily
account
of
his
transactions
to
this
office.
Attached
to
the
Money-order
Office,
we
find
a
controller,
a
chief
clerk,
an
examiner,
a
book-keeper,
112
clerks
in
three
classes,
and
27
messengers.
6.
The
Circulation
Office
in
London
manages
the
ordinary
post-office
work
of
the
metropolis.
In
it,
or
from
it,
all
the
letters,
newspapers,
and
book-packets
posted
at,
or
arriving
in,
London,
are
sorted,
despatched,
and
delivered.
Not
only
so;
but
in
this
office
nearly
all
the
continental,
and
most
part
of
the
other
foreign
mails
for
the
whole
of
the
British
Islands,
are
received,
sorted,
and
despatched.
Under
ordinary
circumstances,
moreover,
British
letters
for
a
great
number
of
places
are
sent
in
transit
through
London,
where
it
is
requisite
they
should
be
rearranged
and
forwarded.
This
daily
Herculean
labour
is
performed
by
the
clerks,
sorters,
and
letter-carriers
attached
to
the
department.
The
ten
district-offices
in
London,
engaged
with
the
same
kind
of
work
on
a
small
scale,
are
subordinate
to
the
Circulation
Office
at
St.
Martin's-le-Grand.
The
Registered
Letter
Branch,
employing
no
less
than
fifty
clerks,
and
the
Returned
Letter
Branch,
with
the
Office
for
Blind
Letters,
are
parts
of
the
Circulation
Department.
The
major
branch
of
the
Circulation
Office
comprises
the
controller,
a
vice-controller,
15
deputy-controllers,
and
251
clerks
in
three
classes.
The
minor
establishment,
as
it
is
called,
employs
no
fewer
than
2,398
persons.
In
this
force
are
included
42
inspectors
of
letter-carriers
in
three
classes;
the
rest,
being
composed
of
sorters,
stampers,
letter-carriers,
and
messengers.
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