Postal Services
Sir, —What a bleak weekend for the regular magazine subscriber! For the last few weeks it has taken the Post Office until Monday to deliver mail posted on Friday; yet our country cousins are served better, there being no dictum outside Christchurch City against second-class mail delivery. Bills, yes; but the news magazine, no. It seems ironical that this state of affairs should suddenly be with us, probably through oversight or bad misjudgment, and many will join me in a solid request to the Chief Postmaster to reinstate full mail delivery on Saturday. After all, next to “The Press’’ itself, what other joy for a Saturday if not the printed word, and fresh?—Yours, GIG-LAMP. October 29. 1968. [The Chief Postmaster (Mr M. E. Wilson) replies: “There is no full second-class mail delivery in the other centres. The restriction on magazines and other bulky items allows postmen and some other six-day-week officers to cease duty by 1 p.m. on Saturdays.”]
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31830, 7 November 1968, Page 10
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161Postal Services Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31830, 7 November 1968, Page 10
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