P.O. identity checks
Post Office employees who have to enter private homes in the course of their work always carry identification, according to a Post Office regional engineer, Mr K. Bruce. Mr Bruce referred to an attempted rape on a Wellington woman by a man posing as a Post Office telephone serviceman. AH Post Office employees carried identification cards
which would be presented if requested, Mr Bruce said. They had no pictures but contained signatures. i J “If a woman has serious j doubts about a caller’ai , ’j identity she could evenjjjj ask for another signature jjl as a comparison/* he said-19 Mr Bruce also Mid thatlw Post Office workers invari-Mi ably drove vans with Mow .fl tifying marks.
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