POSTAL DELIVERY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 16352, 23 September 1913, Page 5

POSTAL DELIVERY.

TO THE EDITOI4. Sir, —Could anything be done to bring postal affairs in this city up to the level maintained elsewhere in the dominion P In other cities places adjacent to the city receive their mails from half-past eight onward, and think half-past nine and ten late. At Ferry Road, Linwood, many persons do not receive the morning -mail till eleven and others later, when less belated communities are thinking of the afternoon delivery. So long as he gets finished by twelve the local postman thinks all's right with the world. To save the postman the occasional trouble of stooping down to put a missive under a door, the authorities have also decreed that overy householder shall force his landlord, if he can, to dissect the door, thus creating a draught for winter—for the authorities hare decided that even newspapers, often very bulky, must not be left outside—or else must construct a large and oumbrous box, though on festive occasions and holidays such boxes are often wrenched away and their contents endangered. As the Post Office officials seem to consider nobody except postmen, had they not better rule, that everyone shall call for their letters, as some are already doing and so spare the postmen any further climbing up and down the mountainous region of Christchurch P

There is no use anyone telling again the Christchurch legend about the " lady whose letter got under the linoleum!" Even a post official can see that one letter under the linoleum is worth two that have to be walked a mile for, or three that havo been destroyed by hooligans.—l am, etc., LAURENCE STREET. (The postal authorities state that if our correspondent places his complaint before the Chief Postmaster in Christchurch, they will have it attended to, and will try to meet his wishes. Thoy say that householders are encouraged to make apertures in their doors for their own convenience, as there is a regulation which forbids postmen to place letters under the doors. The delivery is organised on the principle that all residents, as far as possible, should be given the same facilities.— Ed. "L.T.")