The distances from the head office to the extreme outward terminal City and Clifton delivery points are as follows:--Westbury Park, 2-1/2 miles; Horfield Barracks, 3 miles; Ridgeway, 2-1/2 miles; Barton Hill, 1-3/4 miles; Arno's Vale, 1-3/4 miles; Totterdown, 2 miles; Bedminster Down, 2 miles; Ashton Gate, 2 miles; and Clifton Suspension Bridge, 1-1/2 miles. The trams are used by the postmen, and the Department pays the Tramways Company a lump sum in respect thereof. The convenience in this respect will be enhanced when the electric traction system is fully introduced. In the sorting office the letters are sorted to the various rounds by postmen dividers, and the general body of postmen then have to arrange them at their desks seated on little revolving stools. The process adopted by the postmen in setting in their letters for delivery may be explained by the following example relating to what is technically known as the "Cotham Brow Walk." The letters are first primarily divided (upright) into streets, roads, squares, courts, etc., taken thus--viz.: (_a_) Sydenham Road, 1 to 18 (one side only); (_b_) Sydenham Hill, 45 to 11, odd numbers (one side only); (_c_) Tamworth Place 13 to 1 (one side only); (_d_) Arley Hill, 2 to 34 and 5 to 27 (cross); (_e_) Arley Park (cross); (_f_) Arley Hill, 36 and 38 and 29 to 41 (cross); (_g_) Cotham Brow, 124 to 88 and 125 to 27 (cross); (_h_) Southfield Road, 2 to 28 and 1 to 27 (cross); (_i_) Upper Sydenham Road, 38 to 19 (one side only); (_j_) Springfield Road, 47 to 85, odd numbers (one side only). Then the letters for one of the above-named ten divisions or streets are taken one by one and placed in order of actual delivery flat on the table; then all are gathered together and stood upright, the letters for each division being treated in like manner. When the letters for any one street or road, etc., have been set in order, fresh batches of letters of, say, thirty or so, are fully sub-divided by the same process before being set in with the accumulated and finished letters. This course is necessary in order to obviate the postman having to go through a set of fifty or a hundred letters time after time as he gets a fresh batch of letters. Two hours are allowed for the morning delivery and one and a half hours for other deliveries. As those who have the longest rounds have the lightest burdens, they all contrive to finish at about the same time. The Clifton Suspension Bridge, which was erected in 1864 at a cost of £100,000, plays a very unimportant part in postal affairs, as it serves for the passage over the Avon of three postmen only, who cross with letters for the Leigh Woods and Failand districts. Long Ashton, which has a carriage road approached by the bridge from the Clifton side, receives its letters by a postman who crosses by a ferry lower down the river and reaches his destination more expeditiously than by crossing over the bridge.