Antique Canada Mail Box

Antique CANADA MAIL Box still being used daily and located into the HAMILTON, ONT., Medical Arts Building, Young Street at James Street South,... more

by Danielle Parent

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Antique Canada Mail Box

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Danielle Parent

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Photograph - Photographs

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Antique CANADA MAIL Box still being used daily and located into the HAMILTON, ONT., Medical Arts Building, Young Street at James Street South, 1930-31. The box is made of brass and is in mint condition. The day of the capture the mail man was accessing the mail box and delivering the correspondence. The interesting part for me was to see who the mail was being directed from all over the building toward the mailbox via the old fashion vacuum tube that goes from floor to floor and is transparency let you witness the envelopes rapidly travel to be delivered. The building dates from 1930-31. The system is working perfectly well more than 83 years later and is partaking with daily business along with our advanced technology!
(following,from Canada Post Web site an informative reading from Mme St�phanie Ouellet http://www.canadapost.ca '' in 1985 National Control Center Located in Ottawa, the National Control Centre supervises the annual delivery of 10 billion letters and parcels to recipients at over 12 million addresses all across Canada. Opened in 1985, the Centre is equipped with sophisticated telecommunications and computerized control systems for the precise co-ordination of a vast postal communication network. The National Control Centre provides continuous monitoring, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It is linked not only to five strategically located regional centres, but also to airline dispatching systems, major ground transportation companies, and the meteorological forecasting network.The National Control Centre has three mandates. The first is to ensure that the mail is delivered within the time frames established by Canada Post. To do this, the Centre has a control room outfitted with many screens, which, at a glance, provide a view of the entire Canadian postal network. A system of luminous colour icons that light up on the screen when there is a mail routing problem allows the Centre to react quickly. These screens give the controllers access at all times to weather forecasts, carrier schedules and the status of the road network (highway map, construction, accidents, etc.). Consequently, they are in a position to make effective decisions when problems arise in routing the mail. It will soon be possible to monitor the movement of mail world-wide on electronic screens. A team of 12 technicians also works in the control room, operating in round-the-clock shifts so as to be prepared to deal with any technical difficulties.The second mandate of the National Control Centre is to present a daily operations report to the corporation's senior management. Every morning at 8:30, the executives meet for 30 minutes. They are presented with the problems the Centre had to face on the previous day, for example, burglary of a post office, delay of certain dispatches, a complication due to an employee prank and so forth. At this meeting they are also presented with various Canada Post activity and performance reports. In short, this daily meeting serves to ensure that the Corporation is providing steady service.The third and final mandate of the National Control Centre is to promote its technology. To this end visitors are invited to attend an executive meeting and to tour the control room. They are also invited to a presentation on the various electronic services offered by Canada Post, such as the Web site, its secure electronic courier PosteCSTM, the Electronic Post Office, and the eParcel storeTM.
The advanced systems of the National Control Centre of Canada are the envy of many of the world's postal administrations. Canada Post International has in fact already contributed to the establishment of control centres in Argentina and Nicaragua, and is currently in talks with other countries.

St�phanie Ouellet

Sources

Canada Post Web site: http://www.canadapost.ca

Gendreau, Bianca. "Moving the Mail." In Special Delivery: Canada's Postal Heritage, by Chantal Amyot, Bianca Gendreau and John Willis; edited by Francine Brousseau. Fredericton, New Brunswick.: Goose Lane Editions and Canadian Museum of Civilization/Canadian Postal Museum, 2000.

Wilson, Jane M. "Les nouveaux services �lectroniques: l'avantage de voir et toucher." In Performance, 14, 7 (January 2000)."

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