Eglen's first post office no. 2

The name is misguiding, it wasn't Eglen's first post office. But it's a post office, from the mail distributing company called Eglen's first. Post office no.2 is located in Ivoryhall the capital of the Glorious Kingdom of Eglen. The first post office was build in the Millpoint, where Eglen's first was founded. But that building is now defunct.

Building

The building predates the steam era, and was build on the edge of Ivoryhall, when the city was much smaller. But back when it was build, mail was brought around the country with horse driving couriers. So the building featured stables. And the space those stables occupied, now house small pipe steam boilers they are the latest advancement in steam technology development.

The front side of the office has a dark brick build facade, three stories high, with four entrances on the ground floor. On the upper floor there are tall big windows spread out over the full width of the building. Behind the facade has grown a post sorting complex.

Ground floor

The door to the left is meant for the general population to deliver their messages to be sent. Behind the door are counters where clerks accept messages, those can be written by the people sending them. Or the messages can be dictated, in which case the clerks will write them in Roscoe Lite, the companies own code language.

Payment that is received for the messages is dropped trough slots in the counter, where the coins drop in a gutter and roll to a chamber in the back of the building where they are stored.

The doors left of the centre are for out going delivery boys. When messages are to be delivered near the No.2 post office, delivery boys will take them and run off to deliver the message in return for a delivery fee.

The door right of the centre is for the directors of the post office. A lavish decorated office is placed in the middle of the building. where the director does his director things.

The door on the right is for incoming delivery boys. Where they drop off the messages they've picked up from clients, who think it's below their status to bring the messages to the building themselves. Also staff from other people can drop their messages off here.

The gates at the back are for incoming stores, Coal, and the entrance for the staff

First floor

The first floor is reserved for sorting and redistributing the post which comes from and stays inside Ivoryhall. A part of the messages is passed down to the first floor where the delivery boys will pick it up and run around the city to deliver the messages. Other messages are put back into the system to shoot to other sorting stations in the city.

Second floor

Concerns post that is coming into Ivoryhall, and is split into post that is meant for the city, or post that is meant for elsewhere and needs to be past on. Due to Ivoryhall being the capital a lot of other cities have a direct pipe to this building. Mail is split to messages for inside Ivoryhall and passed to the First floor, or having to go to other cities and just passing, and those are passed to the third floor.

Third floor

Concerns post that is going out of Ivoryhall. From ground and first floor, messages are shot up to the Third floor and here are the pipes located to shoot messages to other main post offices in other cities.

Stables

The stables have been converted to machinery spaces, for the steam boilers that create the steam to power the Maynard-Stanway Mail Distributing System. The former courtyard has been reduced in size for the building of a chimney, and the other place is used to discharge coal wagons.

Capacity

The post office employs 2.000 staff members, split in two 12 hour shifts, as the station operates day and night. It can handle about 1.000.000 messages a day.

Type

Post office

Parent Location

Ivoryhall

Owning Organization

Eglen's first

Employees

2.000

Capacity

1.000.000 messages per day