WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1980
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TSUEN WAN VILLAGES TO GET DOOR-TO-DOOR POSTAL SERVICE
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TSUEN WAN DISTRICT OFFICE IS ARRANGING THE RE-NUMBERING OF HOUSES IN FIVE OLD VILLAGES FOR A DOOR-TO-DOOR POSTAL DELIVERY SERVICE.
A TEAM, FROM THE OFFICE, HAS BEEN COMPILING A LIST OF PERMANENT STRUCTURES IN THE VILLAGES, YUEN TUN, TSING LUNG TAU, TING KAU, TSUEN LUNG AND WO YI HOP, WHICH HAVE COMMUNAL POST BOXES.
WHEN THE SURVEY IS COMPLETED, TALKS ABOUT ALLOCATING NUMBERS WILL BE HELD WITH VILLAGE REPRESENTATIVES. VILLAGERS WILL BE ASKED TO ERASE THE OLD NUMBERS AND PUT THE NEW NUMBERS CLEARLY ON THEIR FRONT DOORS.
THE POST OFFICE WILL BE NOTIFIED WHEN THIS HAS BEEN DONE SO THAT DOOR-TO-DOOR SERVICE CAN START.
A SPOKESMAN FOR TSUEN WAN DISTRICT OFFICE SAID THE NEW SYSTEM WOULD GREATLY IMPROVE POSTAL SERVICES.
HE SAID THE DISTRICT OFFICE WOULD INFORM UTILITY COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS OF THE NEW NUMBERS ON BEHALF OF VILLAGERS.
AT PRESENT. MORE THAN 200 VILLAGES IN THE NEW TERRITORIES HAVE DOOR-TO-DOOR POSTAL DELIVERY SERVICE AND THIS WILL BE INCREASED TO
322.
POST OFFICE EXPANDS ****
THE POST OFFICE PLANS TO OPEN EIGHT BRANCH OFFICES THIS YEAR IN HOUSING COMPLEXES TO PROVIDE A MORE CONVENIENT SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC.
THE POST OFFICES WILL BE LOCATED IN HOUSING ESTATES AT KWA! SHING WEST, SHUN LEE, CHOI WAN, SHA KOK, AP LEI CHAU AND TAI HING AND IN LARGE PRIVATE HOUSING COMPLEXES AT POKFULAM AND KOWLOON BAY.
ANNOUNCING THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY), A SPOKESMAN FOR THE POSTMASTER GENERAL SAID THE BRANCH OFFICES WOULD BE SPACIOUS AND EASILY ACCESSIBLE.
IN ADDITION TO THE EXPANSION PROGRAMME, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL ALSO PLANS TO REPROVISION AND EXPAND TWO EXISTING BRANCH OFFICES AT WAN CHAI AND SHAU KEI WAN.
ONE OF THESE - THE WAN CHAI POST OFFICE IN QUEEN'S ROAD EAST - IS THE OLDEST EXISTING POST OFFICE IN HONG KONG, IT WAS OPENED
IN 1915.
/SINCE THEN
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