Rob Wotherspoon, branch secretary of the CWU Bristol branch, said that he can't remember another time when there has been so much unofficial action taking place in distribution offices and parcel depots.
While the demand for office space parcels in Fairfield County seesaws between 8,000 and 50,000 square feet, some companies, including Cadbury-Schweppes, now headquartered on High Ridge Road in Stamford, are reportedly looking for spreads of 100,000 square feet that are becoming available in Norwalk.
Forget waiting in for the postman or trudging to the parcel office.
Women in stilettos are gabbing in front of the former parcel office where prisoners used to collect their mail.
He staggers into Sam Spade's office clutching a parcel containing a replica of the eponymous statuette, "the stuff that dreams are made of" [sic].
She and Mosley were allowed to reside in the Parcels Office in the prison grounds.
The ornate buildings were demolished to enable the line to be four-tracked, and were replaced by more austere buildings on two island platforms between the tracks, including two waiting rooms, ticket and parcel offices.
"I had to post a parcel and, being in a foreign country, I didn't know whether to go to a post office or news agent," says Abrahams.
The partners are completing an office complex on one parcel but defaulted on a 56-acre portion of the property.
The journey to the parcel pickup office becomes a sort of Famous Five adventure directed by Stanley Kubrick.
It closed in the 1960s and was later converted into a parcel sorting office, but it's been closed – and abandoned – for nearly 30 years.
