Air Parcels By Phone
An improved facility to speed up the delivery of parcels consigned by air mail will be provided by the Post Office in a new telephone notification service. If the addressee's telephone number is written on the parcel, the staff at the receiving office undertakes to ring and inform the owner of the parcel's arrival. In the.experimental stages the service will be confined to offices with an airport within reasonable distance. As the practice of sending parcels by air mail is growing, the department has decided to encourage the traffic and cooperate to ensure maximum speed in delivery. It is intended to have printed a sticked with-" Please telephone addressee, telephone No ,” but*in the meantime the public may itself of the service by writing the telephone number in the address and inserting the .word "Telephone'’
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Northern Advocate, 3 November 1949, Page 7
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138Air Parcels By Phone Northern Advocate, 3 November 1949, Page 7
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