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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">The sorting facility probably
outgrew the building. In Nashville, TN, USA, where I live, the 1930s Main
Post Office facility, next to a railway station, is now an art museum. The
new Main Post Office facility is at least 20 times larger, and located near
the main airport. It includes a small customer service area, but the main
function of the building is sorting.</p>
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February 25, 2017 4:50:42 AM Dave F <davefoxfac63@btinternet.com>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/02/2017 20:01, Martin
      Koppenhoefer wrote:<br>
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      <div>ok, the term might still be in use, but if you're not used to
        the term it's evoking pictures like this: <a
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    I suspect that is still relevant for many hand written envelopes
    & awkward shaped parcels<br>
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      <div>according to wikipedia mail_centre is the word:</div>
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_centre">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_centre</a></div>
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      <div>according to google, sorting office is most important in
        dictionaries and mail centre is most important in the real world
        ;-)<br>
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    This is interesting. From what wikipedia says, the building I was
    tagging in Britain may not be classed as a sorting office/mail
    centre any more, but a 'delivery office'. (only 28 taginfo of a
    claimed 1,356 - maybe a good quarterly project for Talk-GB?).<br>
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    DaveF <br>
  
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