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The post office was home to many black workers, and this population increased as whites left postal work in the 1950s and '60s for better jobs. Postal workers in general were upset about the low wages and poor conditions. [1] [5] The importance of black workers was amplified by militancy outside the post office. [1]
In the variation "pony express", the "post office" is a closet or it is in some other dark room. The game is played the same, but can become more intense. It is described in the 1954 movie Phffft as "...the same as Post Office, but with more 'horsing around'". In Sweden, the game is referred to as ryska posten ("Russian mail/post office").
The former Post Office Research Station The former Post Office Research Station, 2012. The Post Office Research Station was first established as a separate section of the General Post Office in 1909. [1] In 1921, the Research Station moved to Dollis Hill, north west London, initially in ex-army huts. [1]
During the war, 120 offices of the post office were destroyed and more than 200 officials were killed. [6] Bangladesh Post Office started with 6667 offices and nearly 25 thousand personnel. [6] Local post offices were ordered to rubber stamp Bangladesh on existing inventory of Pakistan stamps. [9]
The Toronto Street Post Office, also known as Toronto's Seventh Post Office, is a heritage building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was completed in 1853 and is located at 10 Toronto Street in downtown Toronto. The building was designed by Frederick William Cumberland and Thomas Ridout in the Greek Revival style.
The North Sydney Post Office is a heritage-listed post office located at 92-94 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, North Sydney Council, New South Wales, Australia.It was designed by the Colonial Architect’s Office under the direction of James Barnet, and built from 1885 to 1889 by James Reynolds.
The General Post Office, Mumbai, is the central post office of the city of Mumbai, India. The post office handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels. Situated in the vicinity of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Mumbai General Post Office (GPO) is a paradigm of Indo-Saracenic architecture.
In 1954, two veteran postal employees were charged with being the ringleaders of two large bookmaking operations operating out of the Terminal Annex. Investigators alleged that 10-15 other employees were involved in the operations. [8] In 1970, a postal supervisor was shot and killed at the Terminal Annex by a disgruntled postal clerk.