MAIL CLEARANCES

Evening Star, Issue 23666, 28 August 1940, Page 6

MAIL CLEARANCES

SUBURBAN POST OFFICE BOXES ON SUNDAYS TO OPERATE THIS WEEK-EHO Welcome news to residents is an intimation bv the chief postmaster (Mr N. R. M‘lsaac) that as from this coming Sunday there will be a midnight clearance, of mails at the majority of suburban post offices. The object is to give residents a central point in their particular districts at which to post their Sunday mail, so that it may be cleared in time to catch the first express north on a Monday. This decision has been arrived at by the Postmaster-General, and the new scheme will operate in all the main centres of New Zealand. It is a concession in war time which is much appreciated, for when the clearances were discontinued some, four or five weeks ago, residents who usually left the task of answering their correspondence until the Sunday night found themselves in something of a fix. It is to be clearly understood that these Sunday night clearances relate only to the. mail boxes iu the suburban post offices and not the street pillar boxes. Those with mail to post will not fcavil at having to walk to their district office to post mail. The suburbs concerned are Anderson’s Bay, St. Clair, Caversham, -Dunedin North, the Gardens, Mornington, North-east Valley, Moray Place, St. Kilda, South Dunedin, and Roslyii.