POSTAL DELIVERIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 17

POSTAL DELIVERIES

Sir, —Can you tell me why, in this supposedly enlightened and up-to-date country, the first morning post is delivered somewhere about 10.30 a.m.? Is there any real reason why we should not, like any other principal town in any other civilised country, read our morning letters with our breakfast? If so, I should like to know it. I know of nothing so conducive to the curtailment of business as to read one's morning mail at night. What's the matter with the G.P.0., and what prevents us getting our mail at 8 o'clock? G. Mcßobie.

Sir, —We read that the morning delivery of letters is to made not later than 9.30 a.m. in Papatoetoe and Mangere. In this road, about the centre of Auckland, the first delivery is now never made before 11 a.m., on mail days between 12 and 1, afternoon delivery about 4. Before this zoning system was started, the first delivery was about 9.30 a.m. When we complained of the delivery being made much later we were told that this was a " dead end." Surely this is a most remarkable description of a place, with such an amount of traffic as Park Road, Grafton, has. It is only equalled by the official postal* statement to the press that in no case are deliveries made later than before. Park Road.