Oversized photograph. A female clerk can be seen working inside the Post Office Terminal Annex, also known as Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post Office; a customer can be seen on the opposite side of the window. On the clerk's left, there are narrow slots where people most likely deposit their mail, and which gets put into one of two piles: "City" and "D.P.O.". Farther left still, a large wooden bin sits directly under a bigger slot, possibly for packages or bulk mail. Employees of the United States Postal Service are divided into three major categories: Letter Carriers (also referred to as mailpersons or mail-carriers); Mail Handlers and Processors; and Clerks. Post office clerks, as the one pictured here, are often in charge of sorting first and second class mail, as well as standard and bulk rate mail; handling customer needs; receiving express mail; and selling stamps. The Post Office Terminal Annex was designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood in the California Mission style and was built in 1938; the supervising engineer was Neal A. Melick. This 400,000 square feet building served as the main mail distribution center for the Metropolitan Los Angeles area from 1938 until 1994. Approximately 1,700 Post Office employees handled over four million pieces of incoming and outgoing mail on a daily basis. The Post Office Terminal Annex was added to the National Register of Historic Places - Building #85000131, on January 11, 1985. Although no longer used as a post office, the building is used occasionally as a filming site.
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1 photograph :b&w ;28 x 35 cm. Photographic prints
United States Post Office Terminal Annex (Los Angeles, Calif.) United States Postal Service Post office buildings--California--Los Angeles Historic buildings--California--Los Angeles Postal service--California--Los Angeles Postal service--Employees Mail-chutes Underwood, Gilbert Stanley Melick, Neal A
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