POST OFFICE LULL
WORK APPROACHES NORMAL
MAIL FROM OVERSEAS After the tremendous pressure °| work of the previous few days, tlie niai sorting room at the chief post o yesterday was a scene of peace an quiet. Only a few sorters were at WOT and the silence was only J broken by the clatter of a post-mar W 4
machine. No street delivery will be made until to-morrow, but yesterday tiist-c ass mail was sorted" for sending sou the three o'clock and limited expresse and for delivery to the more importan of the sub-offices, such as Hamilton an Thames'. Letters were also sorted terday for the air mail to-day. ® will be the same procedure to-day a a larger staff will be at work. The Aorangi, which arrived in u land yesterday morning, carried ma , which was sorted for transmission s " and to sub-offices. The Awatea, n was due at Wellington vest a - v ' » carried mail, the Auckland P Ol 1
which is expected this , in From Wednesday to tr.da> the mailrooin should be neai at The time will suffice to clear u( remains of the Christmas nex t a further busy period com week-end.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23230, 27 December 1938, Page 8
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193POST OFFICE LULL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23230, 27 December 1938, Page 8
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