POSTAL PROBLEMS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 August 1926, Page 7

POSTAL PROBLEMS.

MAIL-SORTING DELAYED. LUCATJNG EOKEIG NEKS. Many and varied are the problems requiring solution by the Post and Telegraph Department, clue to inconsiderate and careless actions of the public. At times the officials are put to inconvenience and much trouble through documents being addressed incorrectly, and posted during possible fits of mental aberration, or by persons unversed in the intricacies of the English language. When again, there are others, who scrawl a few hn.stly hieroglyphics across a healed envelope, and, although they can scarcely decipher them themselves, expect others to do so. The mail sorter i.s much harassed bv mistakes, which some may’regard as trivial, but still, with characteristic vigour, he delveis into his daily problems, and endeavours to locate the persons for whom letters, papers and packages are intended.

The vague nature of some addresses was brought, under* the notice of n Times representatives by the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department (Mr. A. T. Markpian), when quoting a few of the many puzzlers presented with persistent regularity to those engaged in the sorting of mails. For instance, Mr, Mark-man produced reference to a letter’ that had been addressed to “Mr. Retro da Vunzo, Bochz 46, Zainon, New Zealand.’’ “Zainon” and the officials’ local geography we re not acquainted, but. owing to the intelligence of the sorting staff, who utilised the few' clues at its dis-posal, the owner of the document was correctly located at Box 46, Shannon.

Yet another poser consisted of a letter addressed to “Khan Zamon, No. 52, Galasgho street south the ’one. New Zealand.” With tenacity of purpose and efficiency, the depart merit also went deeply into this question. Ultimately flic idea was hit on that “south the one ’ referred lo the South Island and the “Galasgho street” had a peculiar Scottish touch about . it. According, the mail was with Dunedin, where Khan Zamon was discovered to l>e flourishing amongst the Scots in Glasgow Street.