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Mount Pleasant Post Office (2023). The Mount Pleasant Mail Centre (often shortened as Mount Pleasant, known internally as the Mount [1] and officially known as the London Central Mail Centre) [2] is a mail centre operated by Royal Mail in London, England. The site has previously operated as one of the largest sorting offices in the world. [3]
The Post Office Railway, known since 1987 as Mail Rail, [1] is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge, driverless underground railway in London that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices.
When the parcel post was being introduced 1882, a sorting office was swiftly constructed for it by James Williams at basement level, extending into the Post Office yard; [35] then in 1889 the parcel-post sorting office was relocated to Mount Pleasant. [36] In 1893 an additional storey was added to the top of GPO East. [37]
Mount Pleasant (Australian Capital Territory) ... Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Clerkenwell, London, the largest sorting office operated by Royal Mail; United States
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The Postal Museum booth at Spring Stampex 2016 in Islington, London. In February 2016, the BPMA was renamed the Postal Museum, [4] and began building a new museum which opened in 2017 in Clerkenwell, London, near to the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre. [5] [6] The museum was expected to cost £26 million to build, and consists of two sections.
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The United Kingdom Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant Sorting Office was the world's largest sorting office at the beginning of the 20th century but is now only the largest one in London. [3] Military mail systems, such as the British Forces Post Office and U.S. Military Postal Service, have their own dedicated sorting offices. [4]