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Sir, —- I recently posted a letter addressed to a person at a street number in the central city. Tie Utter was returned to me 16 days later, having be i directed by the Post Office to six wrong Post Office box numbers, and finally stamped “not a box holder at G.P.O. Christchurch” and “return to sender”. The addressee is definitely at the street address given, thet is a letter box at. the entrance to the building, and it is clear that the letter has not been delivered to that letter box. The addressee does not have
a Post Office box. Mail for other persons is frequently placed in my Post Office box in the same way. The Post Office simply will not make any effort to deliver mail to street addresses in the central city. One has no alternative but to take a Post Office box, the rental for wlach was recently increased from $7 to $2O yearly. —Yours, etc.,
O. T. ALPERS August 4, 1976.
[The Chief Postmaster (Mr C. J. Smith) replies: “It is not possible from the information supplied to give any reason regarding the delivery of the letter in < uestion. However, if the correspondent would kindly produce the relative cover or let me have details of the premises to which the letter was addressed, 1 would be happy to have the matter fully investigated.”]
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