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The CO postcode area, also known as the Colchester postcode area, [2] is a group of sixteen postcode districts in the east of England, within nine post towns.These cover northeast Essex (including Colchester, Clacton-on-Sea, Frinton-on-Sea, Halstead, Harwich, Manningtree and Walton-on-the-Naze) and a small part of south Suffolk (including Bures and Sudbury).
Mail sorting refers to the methods by which postal systems determine how and where to route mail for delivery. Once accomplished by hand, mail sorting is now largely automated through the aid of specialized machines. The first widely adopted mail sorting machine was the Transorma, first made operational in Rotterdam in 1930.
The main article for this category is Sorting office. Pages in category "Sorting offices" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The City of Colchester is a local government district with city status in Essex, England, named after its main settlement, Colchester.It is, with 194,394 people according to Office of National Statistics estimate for mid 2022, the most populous district in Essex and also includes the towns of West Mersea and Wivenhoe and the surrounding rural areas stretching from Dedham Vale on the Suffolk ...
Colchester Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Colchester, Essex, England. The town hall, which is the headquarters of Colchester City Council ...
The office is run by Essex County Council. [1] A searchable database of the records held at the office is available on a system called Seax. [2] The Record Office was previously held within County Hall, Chelmsford, before being transferred to a specially built premises on Wharf Road beside River Chelmer. [3]
The building was requisitioned for use as a food control office i.e. rationing centre during the First World War and then re-opened as an events venue with a stage and gallery in 1926. [ 3 ] The building also operated as a cinema in the 1930s, [ 7 ] and continued to host public events after the Second World War : performers included the rock ...
In contrast to the red-brick Parcel Office, the new Letter Sorting Office was built in reinforced concrete; the eastern half was completed in 1926, the steel-framed western half in 1934. The Letter Sorting Office, said at the time to be the largest in Europe and the British Empire, was opened in November that year by the Duke and Duchess of York .