CHRISTMAS MAIL MISSED

Evening Star, Issue 14529, 3 December 1910, Page 13

CHRISTMAS MAIL MISSED

TEN THOUSAND LETTERS LEFT BEHIND. Last week the cable news advised ns that fully 10,000 letters which ought to have gone with the remainder of the Endish mails were left behind in tho Sydney Poet Office. From Sydney papers just to hand it seems that no proper provision was mado to copo with tho heavy demand occasioned by the extra rush of a Christmas mail. The men employed in the department state that they asked for extra at*Blanco on Tuesday, but the request was not granted, although the Deputy Postmaster-General visited the mail room during tho afternoon. The worst feature about the matter, the men say, is that most of the letter:; left behind were latc-feo letters, containing important matter from tho banks and commercial houses of the city-, and these letters, along with many others that had been posted early in the day, would, the men say, probably lie on the floor until the next day. Not only were the letters posted at five o'clock not dealt with, but matter pasted the day before was not touched, because it could not be reached by an inadequate stall. The men engaged in the mails branch went without their meals to try to overtake tho work and to show how anxious they were to do their best for the public. A cab with a final bag of 1,000 letters left tho G.P.O at 7.50 and caught the eight o'clock Melbourne train. The men assert that tho same thing will happen there with the delivery at Christman time, unless tho heads of the department do something to cop© with the everincreasing rush of traffic in the mail room.