ACCUMULATED MAILS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23850, 28 December 1940, Page 8

ACCUMULATED MAILS

GOOD CLEARANCE MADE POST OFFICE STAFF'S WORK Second-class mail that had accumulated at the Chief Post Office, Auckland, over Christmas Day and Boxing Day, as well as overseas mail brought by the Mariposa yesterday, required the whole of the available statf to sort it. A good clearance was made, however, and a substantial proportion of the second-class matter that had banked up was delivered yesterday morning, and the rest in the afternoon. The reduced staff on duty on the close holidays was sufficient to deal with first-class mail as it was received. The accumulation of second-class mail had been disposed of by yesterday afternoon. however, and with it was handled the Mariposa's mail, conditions at the mailroom being normal by mid-after-tioon. . The ground floor of the new building behind the Chief Post Office, which was used as a temporary mailroom during the Christmas rush, has now been | vacated. It will not be used again i, until the contractor has finished in two i or three months' time.