Visitors to the New York World’s Fair from Washington,

Visitors to the New York World’s Fair from Washington, Va. have an unusual opportunity to see a post office of the future. A carefully-chosen group of 80 employees from New York area post offices man the facility which handles all the Fair's mail and some from the Flushing, New York area. The outside mail is used to keep the highly mechanized devices operating at “full tilt." The post office handles approximately 250,000 pieces of mail each day. Postcards to friends and relatives back home are a big item. About 30,000 are mailed from the Fair each day. One third of these are addressed to persons overseas, .- .u *-j F o r e>i g n visitors have no trouble understanding U. S. postal operations. The facility has staff members who speak twenty languages. Residents of Washington, Va. who attend the Fair and wish to try out their foreign language ability can either talk with the multi-lingual window clerks or listen to a tape recorded presentation in the post office lobby which features individual earphones for those who speak Japanese, French, German, Italian and Spanish. New equipment oh hand includes an experimental PitneyBowes Centrifeed which spins envelopes rapidly around a V h e e 1-like mechanism and places them upright on their longest side. They then move into a machine which cancels stamps and postmarks envelopes at a rate of 500 letters a minute. Letters are sorted to go all over the world by machines which position the mail so that the addresses are visible to an operator who sits in front of a keyboard similar to that on a typewriter. By pressing