CLEARING CITY POST BOXES

Press, Volume C, Issue 29536, 10 June 1961, Page 9

CLEARING CITY POST BOXES

New Times Next Week Most street letter boxes in Christchurch will be cleared from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m„ Mondays to Fridays, from Monday onwards. The week-end clearing times will remain as 9 a.m. Saturday and 9 pm. Sunday. The exceptions to the new arragnements will be a few boxes in outer suburbs where clearance is made by other means than the centrallybased vans which clear most of the mail. Previously, most of the boxes now to be cleared from 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. were emptied from 9 a.m.. 2 p.m. and 9 p.m.. although about 30 were cleared from 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. There are 258 street boxes in the metropolitan area. “The old 9 a.m. clearance was not a great help to getting the mail away early, because most mails close towards evening." the deputy chief postmaster (Mr J. W. Lincoln) said yesterday. “The clearance from 1 p.m. will hold up very little of the mail previously collected from 9 a.m., while at the same time it will enable some of the mail previously collected from 2 p.m. to catch earlier outward mails.”. The 1 p.m. clearance will connect with evening dispatches for all New Zealand' offices, and with the overseas airmails which leave Christchurch four times weekly.