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Monday, March 4, 1974
PILING WORK FOR NEW GPO NEARING COMPLETION
The General Post Office will stand on a new site with an area
nearly double its present size when it moves from Pedder Street.
The site, to the north of Connaught Centre and between Elake Pier
and the Star Ferry Concourse, takes up 40,000 square feet. The existing
site occupied by the 63-year-old building is about 23,000 square feet.
Piling work for the new GPO started last month and is now nearing
completion. The actual building work will begin in May and should be
completed by the end of next year.
With a total area of about 180,000 square feet, the new office
complex will have space for a comprehensive range of services.
On the ground floor will be the main parcel office and associated
parcel sorting areas and loading and unloading facilities.
The main public hall and some 15,000 post office boxes will be
on the first floor, which also accommodates a mail sorting office.
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On the second floor will be the main mail sorting office, and on
the third and fourth floors administrative offices for the post office
headquarters and welfare facilities for the staff.
The new building will be provided with up-to-date mail handling
equipment to improve mail flow, and to enable the work to be handled more
efficiently.
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