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Monitors' report submitted to CS
The monitors appointed to observe the Tai A Chau Detention Centre decantation operation this (Wednesday) morning have submitted their report to the Chief Secretary today.
The three monitors comprised one non-official Justice of the Peace, Mr Peter Wong Man-kong; and representatives from two non-governmental organisations, Mr Thierry Taveaux of Medicins Sans Frontieres and Mr Tai Kie-ying of Christian Action.
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New manpower-saving mail sorters introduced
The Postmaster General, Mr Robert Footman, officiated a commissioning ceremony today (Wednesday) at the General Post Office on the introduction of the culler-facer-cancellers in the Post Office.
"In the face of ever growing postal traffic and high accommodation and labour costs in Hong Kong, the Post Office has always looked for productivity improvements through introduction of new technology, computerisation and mechanisation.
"The introduction of culler-facer-cancellers is one of our recent efforts in this direction," he said at the ceremony.
Since 1976, the Post Office has been using facer canceller tables to process mail items posted at posting boxes. These machines require some 13 to 15 staff to manually sort, face and segregate letters into local and foreign mail.
"With the introduction of culler-facer-cancellers, the whole process is done automatically. Only five to six staff are required to man a machine which achieves a similar throughput as a facer canceller table.
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"The use of culler-facer-canceller machines will result in significant savings in manpower which can be redeployed to cope with postal developments in other areas,' Mr Footman said.