DELIVERY OF MAIL MATTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16895, 6 July 1918, Page 6

DELIVERY OF MAIL MATTER.

I —* — I iMI'CII dissatisfaction has already) I been caused by the operation of the j i Postal Department's decision to cur- ] 'tail its services. It is recognised ' that owing to lack of foresight on ! 'the part of the responsible administration the retrenchment which was. 1 made this week must, to a large . I extent, be suffered by the public, i but there is no reason why earnest ' j efforts should rot be made to reduce , , as far as possible the inconvenience j which it involves. The postal delivery is not the least important service, and no pains should be 'spared to ensure that every householder shall receive a regular and I prompt delivery of correspondence. | This will not be possible under the i existing arrangement, which pro vides for only one delivery daily in ; many parts of the city, while others I have two or three. By a comparaj tively simple reorganisation of the available staff it should be possible to provide two deliveries in every part of the (.it-cater Auckland area. I It is not at all clear why there should j have been any discrimination in the i past between adjoining suburbs; in : ! the present conditions the perpetua-; tion of that discrimination is both i unnecessary and harsh in the incon- j venience it imposes. I