Post-boxes in study

Press, 20 October 1987, Page 3

Post-boxes in study

New Zealand Post is continuing to study the “strategic” importance of post-boxes in Christchurch. Five days after the announcement that more than 400 post offices throughout New Zealand will close in February, New Zealand Post’s district manager, Mr Pat Nicholas, yesterday confirmed that the corporation was continuing to examine the use of postboxes throughout the Christchurch area. Mr Nicholas emphasised that boxes would be retained in the metropolitan area until the results of the survey were known. “The survey will cover the public use of boxes and their strategic importance. There will be some which are not heavily

used and we will be looking at whether these should go,” he said. Replying to assertions by the member of Parliament for Selwyn, Miss Ruth Richardson, that rural postal deliveries were also likely to be curtailed, Mr Nicholas said that he was unaware of any move to cut the service.

“I have no knowledge of any proposals to remove rural deliveries.”

Meanwhile, the postmaster of one of the rural post offices to close in February, 1988, has criticised a lack of information available on the proposals.

Mr Ted Krammer, postmaster at St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes district, said that he had been frustrated in his efforts to discuss details of closing.