RURAL MAIL DELIVERIES
A reply was made by the PostmasterGeneral yesterday to a question by Mr. J. R. Sykes (Masterton) in regard to improving the system of rural mail delivery by numbering the settlers' receiving boxes. Sir James Parr said that if a system of numbering were introduced it would uot be possible, owing to the frequent changes, to retain the original sequence for any length of time. If it were possible to retain the original numerical sequence there would perhaps be some gain in the adoption of the proposal, although it was considered that in a largo mimber of cases the box number would be omitted from the address.. Notwithstanding the fact that there were over thirteen thousand rural boxes to be attended to—the majority of these daily—there had been remarkably few complaints. The Department had evidence of the effect of stencilling numbers on boxes on a rural delivery in the Wellington district.. This proved *o be unworkable, and the general system ot present in operation was subsequently reverted to.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 44, 20 August 1925, Page 7
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171RURAL MAIL DELIVERIES Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 44, 20 August 1925, Page 7
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