Nova Scotia Postal History - 17 August 1955 - District Director of Postal Service / ADMINISTRATION / DIVISION / HALIFAX, N.S.

            The Post Office was created as a federal department in 1867. Although postal operations in Canada date back to 1755, postal services were under the control of British authorities until 1851. In 1981, the Post Office ceased to be a government department and became a Crown corporation.  The mandate of the Post Office is to establish, operate and maintain a full range of postal services in Canada. To achieve this objective, the corporation's functional activities are divided into the following:

corporate affairs
operational services
marketing
finance
personnel and administration
systems and engineering

The records of the Post Office are divided into several series, which consists of administrative and operational files and covers all aspects of the activities of the Post Office. These activities include the following:

the establishment and closing of offices
air mail
censorship
rural mail delivery
Eastern Arctic patrol
equipment
international communications
contracts
railway mail
ocean mail
personnel

The data used to create the Post Offices database originated from the series entitled "Divisional Inspectors Reports". The Divisional Inspector is responsible for the following:

observing postal laws and regulations,
establishing new offices and routes,
regulating existing routes,
investigating robberies and abstractions,
enquiring into complaints and misconduct and
making regular personal visits to each post office to evaluate the performance of mail service.

By 1861, each Divisional Inspector was responsible for between 200 and 400 post offices within his district. Initially, Canada East and Canada West were the only two divisions, but by 1870 that number had grown to seven: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, Toronto and London. As postal service expanded, additional Postal Divisions and Inspectorships were created.
   

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