United Kingdom - Ireland
Jul. 07, 1959 - Mr. Marples Goes to Norwich - inspects electronic sorting machines.: The Postmaster General, Mr. Ernest Marples, this afternoon visited Norwich to inspect the sorting office where eight electronic sorting machines (Elsie) have been installed. He also announced that everyone in and around Norwich is to be given a postal code and asked to use it as the last line of their postal address. This will apply to residents, fires and business house alike - in fact everyone whose present address includes the words Norwich, Norfolk'. He said the people of Norwich will be the first in the world to use postal codes in this way. The object is to open the way for the automatic sorting of letters. Photo shows Mr. Ernest Marples feeding letters into one of the electronic sorting machines at Norwich today. Each of the machines costs about £15, 000 and sorts 3, 000 letters and hour
