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Tuesday, April 3, 1973
MORE POST OFFICES ON THE WAY
To Cope With Increasing Demand
The Post Office is to continue its expansion programme and
adopt new postal methods and procedures to meet the increasing demands
being placed upon it.
At present, the Post Office handles nearly one million letters
and parcels every day and exchanges mail with over 130 countries.
A spokesman for the Post Office said today that plans were
in hand to build seven more branch offices to serve residents in various
districts on both sides of the harbour.
They will be designated at Cloudview Road, Guildford Road, Perkins
Road, Taat Tse Mui, Wong Chuk Hang, Waterloo Road North and Lam Tin.
"All the planned new post offices are expected to be opened
within the next 12 months," the spokesman said.
In the meantime, two other new post offices are under construction
one in the Mei Fu Sun Chuen Estate and the other in the Ko Chiu Road
Government Low Cost Housing Estate,
Both are expected to open for business in the near future.
At present, there are 65 post offices in operation in Hong Kong,
including a mobile post office serving residents in the rural areas.
Referring to the new General Post Office in Central and the
International Mail Centre at Hung Hom, the spokesman said: "The feasibility
mechanisation layouts of these two projects were finalised by the British
Post Office Consultancy Service, and the detailed planning of the new buildings
is now in hand."
/Piling