Night Clearances

Hutt News, Volume XXI, Issue 50, 9 June 1948, Page 9

Night Clearances

IMPRQVED MAIL SERVICE

LOWER HUTT AND PETONE

Notification of a marked improvement in The clearances of night mail has been”, received from the chief postmaster, Wellington, by the Hutt yalley Chamber of Commerce and Industry?

Night clearances ;of Post Office and street receivers are being made as follows:. —

Sunday night to Friday night, inclusive, at 9 p.m.: Full clearance. of all street receivers and Post Office posting boxes, city and suburbs. This 9 p.m. clearance lias been extended to cover the Petone and J_,ow,er Hutt, gre,as except for some street receivers in isolated locations where very little correspondence is posted.

Special posting* boxes for night clearance purposes are being erected at Petone (in the Post Qffice vestibule) and at Lower Hutt (attached to poles outside the Post Office). The letters collected, on the night clearance will connect with ajll of the morning mall despatches and with the postmen’s delivery. All.gir. mail letters posted in posting boxes by 9 p.m. and at the Chief Post Qffice by 12.15 a.m. will be included in the early morning air maxis. -

A night staff is employed to deal with the mails and inwards mails from Featlierston, Marfinborough, Greytown, Carterton axid Masterton which arrive by goods train between midnight and 2 a.m. will be sorted by this staff. Similar action will be taken concerning mails from the Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay and Manawatu areas as soon as the Hecessai’y arrangements can be completed by the Palmerston North office, which deals with the mails in transit. The secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. L. V. Phillips, has written to the chief postmaster expressing appreciation of the steps taken.