ROBOT POST OFFICE
MANCHESTER INNOVATION. The first wholly mechanised post office in Britain is to be opened in Manchester. The aim of the new •■Robot” to be installed in the city’s principal sorting office at a cost of £250,000 is to provide a mechanised system by which letters and parcels will be dealt with by machinery from the minute they enter the office to the minute they leave. The parcel sorter, for instance, will operate a keyboard which will despatch bags to their particular compartments. A new invention, worked by five operators, will sort 200 letters a minute into 250 divisions. Under the present manual system a sorter averages 30 letters a minute with 48 divisions, but re-sort-ing is necessary. The office deals with 12 million letters each week.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 2
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129ROBOT POST OFFICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 2
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