POSTMEN’S COMFORT
PROHIBITION UPON OPEN-NECK SHIRTS Sir Kingsley Wood, the British Post-master-general, has refused a request from the Union of Post Office Workers that postmen should be allowed in hot weather to wear open-necked shirts. He considers that the proposed relaxation is neither suitable nor necessary, and the official letter adds: “The Post-master-general considers that to dispense with a tie and to leave unfastened the top button or stud of the shift be definitely incongruous and : altogether out of keeping with the general appearance of the uniform, even when a shirt: such as you advocate was newly put on, and that the incongruity and untidy effect would rapidly increase with the wearing of tne qf appearance, which, i* generally associated in the public mind with efficiency, would, in the Postmastergeneral’s opinion, be endangered. The view of the union of Post Office Workers is that the country postmen carrying a heavy bag along miles of not roads would be just as good a servant or the public and just as much respected by them if he had a collar open at the neck.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21723, 15 August 1932, Page 9
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182POSTMEN’S COMFORT Otago Daily Times, Issue 21723, 15 August 1932, Page 9
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