BRITISH MAIL.
DELIVERY ON SUNDAY
LONDON, Dec. 27. The Post Office broke a long record to-day, when the delivery of letters, including an Australian mail, was general throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Outs;de of London this was the first Sunday delivery sinco the war. Eor London itself it was tlie first in living memory. A postal official declares that there has not been a Sunday postal delivery in London since boys mounted on ponies rode round the city ringing bells announcing the arrival of mails. The innovation was due to the authorities giving the sorters and postmen a Boxing Day holiday after gruelling work dealing with Christmas cards and parcels. For this boon, enabling them to participate in family festivities, they consented to provide a morning delivery to-day.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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