MAIL DELIVERIES

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25085, 17 January 1947, Page 2

MAIL DELIVERIES

Sir, — I haven’t kept the envelope. I only want to know at what time mail must be posted at the Chief Post Office to be available to a box-holder at say 8 a.m. the following day. The Postmaster and the mailroom give different answers. I also think some rearrangement of postmen’s rounds could be arranged to give earlier deliveries in the central area. The war is over, or is it? The air mail postal service from Britain is certainly wonderful; but our local service cannot claim credit for that. Recently visiting Cheviot, I received my mail earlier than I do at my home not 10 minutes’ walk from the Chief Post Office.— Yours, etc., _ PLAIN JANE. January 14, 1947. [The Post and Telegraph Department’s reply is: “As previously stated, in normal circumstances letters posted up to 11 p.m, are Sorted to privateboxes by midnight. Those posted after 11 p.m. are sorted by 9 next morning.”] Sir,—l support the many letters complaining of the delays in delivering letters. A letter could be posted in the evening in Redcliffs and would not be received in Christchurch suburbs until two days later. A mail used to leave regularly at 6.45 a.m.; and letters from Redcliffs would be delivered in Christchurch the same day; but it now leaves after 9 a.m. I understand, too, if a letter is posted in the Chief Post Office on a Friday evening it will not be delivered in Redcliffs, a distance of six miles from the Square, until Monday.—Yours, etc., T BACKWARD. January 14. 1947. • [The Post and Telegraph Department’s reply is: “The inlormation contained in the last sentence is incorrect. Letters posted in Christchurch up to 7 a.m. Saturday reach Sumner in time for delivery by postman that day. The dispatch of mails from Redcliffs is. under investigation. The Chief Postmaster would be pleased to discuss the matter with the writer if he cares to call."]