ENGLAND'S POST OFFICES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 111, 6 November 1929, Page 9

ENGLAND'S POST OFFICES

A TOUR OF INSPECTION"

(From "The Post's" Representative.)' "" LONDON, 20th Sept.. Mr. H. B. Lees-Smith, the PostmasterGeneral, has been touring round visiting post offices all over the kingdom, without disclosing his identity/ Aud ho had some interesting experiences. At one village post office the postmistress offered him a threepenny tip if ho would deliver a telegram, as she had no messenger to send with it. She was rather perturbed when she heard, who her visitor was.

The Postmaster-General lias also been inspecting the coasts of Great Britain, in a cable ship. Touching on the post office of the future, Mr. Lees-Smith says: "I even hope to secure pencils which will be sharp, ink which .will be liquid and clean, and nibs which will flow like a poem.

"Possibly even the ancient' and shabby little compartments to which we have been accustomed in writing our telegrams may be replaced by modern stalls with glossy glass tops.

"Our surveyors have spent the last two months in investigating the condition, of every post office, and I am now receiving reports as to the methods by which old and shabby fittiags can be removed, new floors, and if desirable now shop fronts, can be introduced, aud cleanliness and tidiness ensured."