THE POSTAL SERVICE.
PAST YEAR’S OPERATIONS. A REMARKABLE RECORD. (Special to Daily Times.) WELLINGTON, August 50. Last year the postal service of the Dominion delivered to their intended destinations vo fewer ' than 244,361,864- postal packets. This number was made up 01 149,881,324 letters, 4.557,568 postcards," 3 698,400 parcels, and 86,224,573 other tides. Of the postal packets passing through its hands the Post Office actually lost only .0009 per cent, which for those not versed in the decimal rotation, means that less than on© in a hundred thousand went permanently astray. During the past postal year 6002 inquiries were made lor missing postal packages, and 3790 of them were ultimately found not to have gone astray. For' any delay in delivery it was found that in 1032 oases the sender was responsible and the addressee was re- v sponsible in 1251 cases. In 1115 cases the blame could n6t definitely be_ fixed, and. only in 392 cases was the service at fault. No trace at all was found of a total of 2212 packages. If posted at all they seemed to have vanished into thin air just as things do at times even at home. However mechanically perfect the postal service may be. there is always the human element to be considered, and occasionally in the courts is demonstrated how it is that a postal package becomes permanently missing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20191, 31 August 1927, Page 7
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228THE POSTAL SERVICE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20191, 31 August 1927, Page 7
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