Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries

HIS MAJESTY’S MAILS. despatch and receipt of mails. Bags are dropped, and others are collected, as the mail train rushes alonp'. The ba£ to be forwarded is suspended from a projecting arm at the station; is so knocked off by a projection from the train in full motion as to fall into a net which is attached to 93 of letters goes on merrily: the car is fitted up in all respects like an ordinary sorting office. The cost of the conveyance of the mails by railway amounts to more than one and a-half million pounds annually. The letters posted in London for large provincial towns, such as Leeds, Liverpool, . 'i Photo : C. Knight^ Aidershot. THE SOLDIERS’ POST BAG. the mail carriage, and is for the moment stretched out to receive it; while at the same time the bag to be left behind, being hung out from the mail carriage, is in like manner so struck off as to be caught in a net fixed at the station—the whole of the complex movement being so instantaneous that the eye cannot follow it. Inside the travelling post office the sorting or Bristol, are despatched in bags direct to these towns, where the postal organisation follows more or less the lines of the London head office. Some of the new provincial head offices are among the finest buildings in the kingdom. Leeds, in particular, possesses a magnificent post office. It is the Central Exchange for the trunk tele- phone wires, and it has, therefore, been