“Swift Delivery”
“I thought the postal authorities here were against American methods,” a Dunedin man told the Daily Times last night when describing the "miraculous” reception of two first-day covers from the Roxburgh health camp less than three hours after the letters had been posted in Dunedin. He said there was a special box provided in the Chief Post Office for the posting of first-day covers, which, it was understood, would be stamped at the Roxburgh health camp. These postings closed at 3 p.m. “ Imagine my (astonishment,” he said, “ when I went to my post office box at 20 minutes to 6 and found the covers with the postmark, ‘ Roxburgh Health Camp, October 2.’ I expected them back in about two days."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27510, 3 October 1950, Page 6
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122“Swift Delivery” Otago Daily Times, Issue 27510, 3 October 1950, Page 6
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