‘Journey of a Letter’
Sir, —A N.Z. Post brochure, “Journey of a Letter,” says: “When you buy a stamp you are, in effect, paying New Zealand Post Limited to carry your letter for you. In return for the price of the stamp, your letter is carried safely and quickly to the person you have written to wherever he
or she lives.” The above has been so since 1840 and taken for granted until moving into the country and having to provide a roadside mail box. Being amazed and appalled at having my mail held at a post office 35km away until a rural mail delivery fee was paid, I wrote to the New Zealand Post Office (as it was) stating my objections. More than six months later I wrote again and two months on I received a telephone call. After 20 minutes of discussion, nothing had changed. “It has always been the same with rural mail”; “You can always complain to your M.P.”; “You might be losing your post office anyway and rural delivery could be reduced to three days a week.” The “Journey of a Letter” is surely a misrepresentation of fact.—Yours, etc., A. T. EDWARDS. March 27, 1989.
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Press, 4 April 1989, Page 12
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