POST EARLY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 141, 11 December 1935, Page 13

POST EARLY

CHRISTMAS MAILS

THE SEASONAL- RUSH

Official advice to post early and often during the coming busy season is accompanied by an assurance from the Post Office that if records are broken, the extra work will be undertaken cheerfully. To render the best service to the public in the wa;- of prompt delivery it will help, the hard-worked postmen and. mail staffs if the inevitable avalanche is not limited to the last week before Christmas, but spread (through timely forethought on the part of the public) over a period of a fortnight or more;

There is a special reason for urging the importance of early posting this season. It happens that there will be a congestion of inward mail when the Post Office will be running at high pressure on its Dominion business. A very heavy dispatch from Great Britain, of letters, parcels, and packets, will arrive in Wellington by the Rangitane on December 18. There is such a large exchange of correspondence between New Zealand and Australia that the mail arriving from the Commonwealth on December 23 at Wellington with the. final Christmas postings from over the Tasman and more distant countries is bound to be of record proportions, and it comes only twenty-four hours later than the English mail via Vancouver by the Aorangi, due at Auckland on December 22. It is expected to complete the Dominion distribution of this mail within two days, although the rush of correspondence posted at Dominion offices during that period is bound to be heavy. Friendly co-operation by posting early will enable these heavy inward mails to be expeditiously handled, together with the cascade of correspondence which the Post Office is hoping will descend upon it.