The Postman’s Whistle
Sir, —The paragraph which appeared in Saturday’s issue of the Evening stating that Wellington postmen use up to 34,000 cubic feet of air just blowing their whistles, makes one wonder how much energy and air is saved by the Greymouth postmen. It has been noticed locally that postmen are failing to announce their daily visits to certain streets. This neglect leaves householders in doubt as to whether the “postman has been” or not, and as a result, time is wasted by having to run out to the letter box on the off chance that “he has been.” Is this economy another of the “no” complexes of the P. and T. Department we have been reading of recently?—-Yours, etc., GIVE A LITTLE WHISTLE. Grey mouth, April 5.
When the above letter was referred today to the chief postmaster at Greymouth, Mr H. C. Rowe, he stated that postmen were instructed to use the whistle in the course of their rounds and that, if the writer of the letter would make a specific complaint, it would be investigated. —Editor, Evening Star.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1948, Page 2
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