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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-09-28, Page 20reir4 be011, pression. In the above example, only the letter carrier would sort this letter by hand, before he leaves • oti his walk in the 'morning. If • the destination is not one of the 15 cities with mechanized equip- ment,, the letter will be. handled manually at the destination point. SPECIAL , 1 THANKSGIVING DINNER tEbt little 3itn• BAYFIELD 565-2611 oft4).. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 5:00 AND--7:00:-Pla:--' - MONDAY, . OCTOBER 9 1:00 P.M. - MENU - • Hors d'oeuvres Tomato juice cocktail or hot spiced cider Relish Tray Jellied salad or tossed salad Homemade dinner rolls Whipped potatoes Turnip or baked butternut squash Minted pea* Prime rib --roast beef and Yorkshire pudding Roast turkey and fresh cranberry sauce Hot plum pudding with rum sauce _Pumpkin pie with whipped cream fresh apple pie and cheese 'Little Inn fruit. compote Mixed nuts and cheese tray' Dinner mints , Coffee, tea or milk PRICE *500 --ADULTS Children Half Price " Reservations Required • • "" • (iitici nd Country ,..a.' . .......," ...,, •••,, j 1 Nor ..::•••••• commences Week of • • ••••••:44:,•,,,,,. fh. MEN'S • LADIES!' • N.ew • Meml)ers Welcome Interested people 'please contact The *Morgan 5244072 - °The holites - 524.1443 Th, VeNeteets 5249155 44 P*(0 44% H SIGNAL -MR, THURSDAY, SEITEttliER 20, 1913 ' Jr itiforrilaticono...4•0. ' .1, • t ,0 • . • Canada's' postal CODE, unlque in the World, has, been introduced, to facilitate the sor- ing of mail, especially in larger, cengeeted Post Offices, and to expedite the handling of rapidly growing mail volumes as the Net Office mOves'into the age of ' mechanized operations. The COM, is being in- trodu4d gradually across the country, based on the following scheduleOttawa, April 1971; Manitoba, October 1971; Saskatchewan, February 197?;„. Alberta & N.W.T., April 1972; Eastern Ontario, July 1972; Sbuthwestern Ontario, October 1972; Metropolitan 'Toronto, Novernber 1972; Eastern Quebec, January° 1973; Central , Ontario, February 1973; Nor- •,,thern - Ontario, March 1973; • Western Quebec, April 1973; Metropolitan Montreal, August 1973; Atlantic Provinces, British Columbia & Yukon, Early 1974. The postal CODE will become an integfal part of every Canadian address. In just six characters - a combination of' letters and numbers - there is enough information to represent a person's address right down to one side of a city street, and sometimes even further: It is these six characters, con- verted to 'binary code, which our machines will use • to read the address and sort the mail. The , CODE itself neve- changes - at least nob until 2000 4„,D., the minimum 30 -year life span planned for the CODE, and, probably not for long after that - although •an individual will change his CODE'should he move. The. CODE is 'allocated according to street and street number, and not to individuals, so it 'stays put. The postal CODE takes the form of ANA NAN .where "A" represents a letter pf the alphabet and "N" a number from0 to 9. The first three characters are separated from the last three by a,space. A typical example is N6A , 2W1 which represents a section of London,' Ontario. We'll use this exarapie throughout the ex- planation. ;41 using our'exainple, in London "N6A" designates an area bor- dered by the Thames River on. the North and On the. West, the CNR and CPR tracks on the South, and Wellington Street and Colborne Street on the East. In rural areas, the Area Code , denotes an area in which there are fewer than 200 small post offices, The first character of the Area Code, *rays a letter, represents a very large area -- sometimes an entire province, or partof a province. For example, the letter "N"represents South- western Ontario. The other letters have been allocated as' follows: "A" for Newfoundland, "B" for Nova Scotia, "C" for Prince Edward Island, "E" for New I3runsyvick, "G", "H" and "J" for Quebec, "K", "L", "M", and "P" for the rest" of Ontario, "R" for Manitoba, "S" for Saskat- chewan, "T"! for Alberta, "V" • for British Columbia, • "X" , for the Northwest TerritorieS and "Y" for the Yukon. , *3z$ The second and third charac- ters, in combination, serve to divide this larger area into parts Of a city, or a group of rural ' A zero in the second position indicates a rural area, while the, numbers 1 to 9 in this position mean an urban area where there is letter carrier delivery. Thus "N6A"- is, by definition, an ur- ban area. • For the sake of simplicity, the first three characters can be referred to as the Area Code and the last three as the Local Code. THE AREA CODE In urban areas, the Area Code describes an area about the size of 25 letter carrier routes. In crowded downtown areas, this would be equivalent to about 120 city blocks. In residential areas, it would be even bigger. Three-way discussion on sewage Sometime next week a three way meeting is to be held by the Provincial Ministry of the En- vironment,7The Campbell Soup Company and the Town of Listowel. They' will discuss cost sharing for proposed im- 'GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT @rovements to the corrununity's 441 WEST ST. 524-9442' • sewer system, which is jointly t owned by the town and the soup . THE LOCAL CODE The:Local Code, the second half of the postal CODE, pin - able to sort mail right down to ,these destinations. In the case of a large, apaftment building or business office which: bas its own CODE, mail can be sorted for this one destination. in a• separate bundle. Similarly, in a residential area. where one CODE covers one side of a street it will be possible to sort all mail for the people on that block into one bundle which the letter carrier then takes and delivers. Where the Local Code represents a post office box, the machines will sort this mail into another separation from which the letters are taken and placed directly into the proper boxes. To go back ,to our example, "N6A 1W1" designates the South side of Sydenham Street, between Talbot Street and Saint George Street in London. This illustrates just how muchAetail the CPDE provides. Here is a ,typical address in , growth% New postal C.ODS are,held in reserve for this. even- tuality. Confusion caused by let- ters artenumbers which resem- ble each other is avoided in two, ways: (1) the first, third and fifth charactera are,tilWays let- ters, and the others always num- bers; 42) letters such as I and 0 are never used, in any position. The Post Office will be in- • Owen Son offices. Toronto and .Montreal together account fir 44% of the mail. The Post Office is spending a considerable amount of money on the CODE, but* is certain from experiences in other cul - tries and fiom studies done here in Canada, that.it is worth every penn.V. With rising mail Volumes, and increasingly faster methods of communication, a more sophisticated sorting systems -- and coding -- is the only way the Post Office can keep costs down and' still provide efficient and reliable service. • , .atsitarkdale, , • Hanovir - • OC NOG. NOK. Windsor -- 0 Pelee Island points the address even further. In urban areas, the three characters, ,taker together, can designate one side , of a city street between intersections, a large business firm, an apart- ment , building, a large office building or a form of delivery .from a. post office -- rural route, post office boxes, general delivery, etc. So when new equipment is in- stalled, by using the postal CODE, the .Post Office will be NOM 0Sarnia , NON NOP Chatham _ this postal CODE area:. Mr. D. Brown, 147 Sydenham Street, London-,- Ontario, N6A 1W1: The -postal CODE appearrsoas the last item of the address, whenever possible on a separate line. In .rural areas where there is no letter carrier delivery, the Local Code' denotes a specific post office. Each CODE in- dicates a' different post office. The system has been designed with enough flexibility to adjust for population shifts and FOR YOUR AUTO INSURANCE. MALCOLM MAINERS pally; Agreement on a basis for payment will enable the town to • proceed with. -0 now delayed second stage 'of its four-year *Ora program. • The town and company share disposal facilities in the' form of a. lagoon system which has been dumping sewage of varying degrees of ,purity into the Maitland Rive 4 for some time and 'causing considerable con- cent among residents along the river and a citizens' action grtup calling themselves the "Save the Maitland Association," , • The lagoon was expanded 'in August of 1911 to include a new • one and Inte-half, acre aeration cell at" a 'coot of $165,000' but spill* even after this went into opeleation, have been reported, A fish bone itt the throat can can** great diseomfort with ontirtuod takhing, coughing and even 'honking, St John Ambttlaka advises that ho, attattiOt ahead 1» , made to limo. the flithboa* Try to kaart ' einitv from panicking and let "OW4 akt , • *Stratford "London • NOL A 4, Kitchener - Waterloo St. Thomas • Woodstocit' z a Brantford stalling automatic letter sorting equipment over the next four years in the 15 largest cities which account for 85% of all mail in Canada - Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Hamilton, London, Windsor, Winnipeg, _Regina, . Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Even- tually, machines.' will be in - 'stalled in some of the smaller NOA Dunnville • • , ".1 that cancel the stamps and iden- tify which mail goes into the 'automatic sorting ` system and which will be • handject manually. •The machines can handle most regular -sized mail; but oversize or bulky envelopes, or parcels, have to be treated by hand, ' Next °the mail gbes into a "reservoir stacker" which simply "controls the flow of mail going' into the coding desks, the next ',step in the operation. The ceding desk looks like a large typewriter and is equipped • with a keYboard. The coding desk operator reads the postal code -On the envelope and depresses the appropriate keys on the keyboard. (Envelopes • without Postal CODES are channelled out of the system and sorted by hand.) The infor- 44* 1, Maitland. Country Club DINING ROOM OPEN ALL' YEAR ROUND. LUNCH. SERVED DAILY 12 to" 2 DINNER BY RESERVATION AVAILABLE FOR BANQUETS & WEDDINGS BOOKINGS NOW BEII1G ACCEPTED FOR CHRISTMAS PARTIES 414 Call "Fanny" 524-9641 'nation is fed. to a computer which identifies' the Postal CODE and activates a printing device in the coding desk. A fluorescent "bar code", prac- tically invisible to the human eye and written in computer, language, is. ,then imprinted On the envelope. The coded letter is then con- veyed automatically to the letter sorting machines. These machines can process up to 26,640 pieces of mail an hour. The letter is scanned by an• optical device which reads the fluorescent bar code and, with —the-help-ef-the--eemputerf-iden— tifies the destination of the letter and deposits it in the proper destination bin. At' the apprepriate hour, the letter is collected, • along with other • mail for the destination, and sent on its way. ' At the destination, the letter goes directly to another letter sorting machine ( if the destination is one of the 15 mechanized cities) and the same process repeats itself with the letter being sorted directly to a letter carrier's walk. At the destination, the letter does- not have to go through the coding desks again, since it has • , The mechanized sorting system will only work for those letters bearing the Postal CODE. Letters without the CODE will be processed manually. Here is how a letter will be handled once the machinery is in operation: On arrival at the Post Office, letter mail goes into machines • BOATERS!! ATTEND THE GODERICH POWER SQUADRON TRAINING PROGRAM CENTRAL HURON SECONDARY SCHOOL, CLINTON REGISTRAIION: WED., OCT. 4 (7:30-8:30 p.m.) CLASSES BEGIN WED., OCT. 1 1 Learn Navigation, Seamanship and Safety in the Han- dling of Boats.... Invaluable Training for every BOATER and SAILOR! A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION SERVING HURON COUNTY BOATERS ,39b 141 THANKSGIVING Sunday Night. October 8 • SMORGASBORD • 500 AND 7:00 P.M. I RESERVATIONS,REQUItLi • ,--Tmonlay—Otto -Leu THANKSGIVING • DINNER WEAVED 12 to'1i30 and 6;00 to 730, - BEDFORD HOTIL „GODERICH — .020337 Radios Octefier 4th Wojmoiday Night Smorgasbord o 7:30 r Regarding Assessment Appeals • TOWNSHIP OF EAST WAWANOSH TOWNSHIP OF WEST WAWANOSH 'the assessment roll may be inspected during business . hours at the Municipal offices located at Eliot Wawanosh; R.R. 5, Wingham and West Wawanosh; R.R. Lucknow. Any complaint with respect to any ". aiseismentan the assessmantroll- may be -brought -to— 0i. assessment review court, pursuant to Section 52 of the Assessment Act, R.S.0,- 1910, chapter 32 as amen- • ded by Section 10 of the Assessment Amendment Act, 1971. Notices 6f complaint must be made in writing either by, letter or on forms available at the municipal of- fice*. For purposes of identification please include your name and postal address and the reason for complaint. If posSible note Jails° the assessment 'roll number, con- cession and lot number, and the municipality in which the property 10 situated. Any notice of cOMplaintshall be ' Mailed by ordinary mall to the regional registrar named 'below not later than the 31st day of October, 1972. Harbinion, Regional Registrar, Assessment Review Court, Newmarket, Ontar10. Mrs. Joan Arnistrorta • Clerk of East Wawanosh 41erit of Wesi Wawanosh • • Mrs. ifititorta,Thompson e JJ +44 • . 0 0 0'