"EXPRESS DELIVERY"
Some time ago attention was drawn in The Post to the Postal Department's scheme of "express delivery" in the Parcels Branch. For example, if a person wishes to send a parcel to, say, Auckland, and takes it to the counter in reasonable time for the following day's train—24 hours' grace to the Department—he is informed that unless he pays an "express delivery" charge of 6d, the parcel may not go for two or three days. The common complaint is that the Government has imposed a "war tax" of 6d on parcels. The "express delivery" rule has become such a regular addition to the ordinary rate that it is regarded as a kind of special tax.
In conversation with a Post representative, the Acting-Postmaster-Gen-eral (the Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald) said that he would look into this matter.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 27, 31 January 1919, Page 8
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