“CIVIL (?) SERVANTS.”
Sir, —Yesterday (Friday*) I saw’ a most glaring instance of the incivility and disinterestedness of ouf so-called civil servants. On going into a suburban post office about 1.45 p.m. I found an elderly lady knocking at the counter. She knocked five times alter I entered, and at last a woman’s voice said in an extremely sharp, snappy manner, “You will, have to wait; this is my lunch hotir.” The elderly lady explained that she wanted only’- a stamp, but was told that she would just have to wait “ until the boy came in, as I am not going to serve anyone during my lunch hour.” The lady therefore went out with the remark to me that it was disgraceful. It would not be difficult to predict the fate of a private firm whose employees treated clients in this manner, nor the fate of the said employees should the manager find out.—l am, etc., BUT WHY ? (The Chief Postmaster has promised to inquire into the matter.—Ed. “Star.”)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18450, 28 April 1928, Page 12
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