The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-14
From the London Tid-Bits.

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 "HE postal and telegraphic depart ment attached to the royal house. | hold is under the control of MT. Hiley. who acted for several years as the | court postmaster in the late reign and was reappointed to the position by King George on his majesty's accession.
 The headquarters of the court postof- fee are at Buckingham palace, but tenn porary office is established wherever the King may be staying, under the direc- ton of MT. Hley, who always travels with the court -.i -41
 The postoffice at Buckingham palace consists of three large apartments; one | is fitted up as a teegraphic gallery, an- other as a sorting room, and third as a general office. There is also a telephone exchange attached to the postoffice, where i three operators are employed.
 The letters for the King and Queen and members of the household are delivered to Buckingham palace from the general postoffice six times day, the first de- livery being made at o'clock in the morning.
 | The mail on its arrival at the postoffice is at once sorted 0here are four sorters on duty throughout the day) and made I'D into separate packets for the King. Queen. members of the royal household, resident officials in the household and the | servants.
 | The whole mail is, by the way, carefully ,, counted before it is sorted, and the num- Der of letters received is entered in a book labelled Mails In.'
 After the packets for delivery through out the palace have been made up the number of letters in each packet is count ed and entered in book labelled Mails Out and the numbers In both DOCKS i must, of course, be the same. | As soon as the mails have been sorted they are given to two of the palace post men. who deliver them to their respective departments. The letters for the King and Queen are delivered to the equerrfes' de- partment and are placed in the secre- taries' rooms by an equerry.
 The letters for members of the house. hold are delivered to their respective pri- vate rooms. and the letters for the male servants are delivered to the steward S waiting room. where they are put into l large rack, from which they are taken by servants between 9:3O and 1O:30 a. m and 7sO and S:so D. m.
 | The letters for the female servants are delivered to the head housekeeper's room | and are dealt with in the same manner as the letters for the male servants.
 There are six large mahogany pfriar pa1acR where letters can be posted by mem bers of the household These boxes are cleared every two hours and the contents made up into mail bags at the palace postoffice. from whence they are dis patched to the general postoffice The mails are sent to the general postoffice six times day.
 All the Kings letters, whether in state or private business, are marked "officia paid" and need not he stamped, neither need any letters on state business writ ten by member of the household pu' all the private letters of members of the household must be stamped in the usua manner.
 Anart from the ordinary mail business inc court postmaster has considerable quantity of dispatches for special deiIv- cry to attend to which are not passed through the hands of the general post offiee Numbers of dispatches to the chie1 government offices and to many priva,t individuals are sent out from Bucking ham palace every day when the court is in residence in London. These areS de;iv cred by one of the four special messen , gers attached to the court postoffice Two !. of these officials deliver messages 1T
 London only, but the other two must bt ready to start for any part of the United
 Kingdom at a moments notice. Eacf of these two has always kit bag packed ready for travelling in the court post office.
 Urgent dispatches for the continent ar'
 sent to the foreign office, from whence tho Kings messengers are instructed al ! to their delivery.
 ] The telegraphic business passing througl