LOST IN THE POST

Waipa Post, Volume 43, Issue 3353, 24 September 1931, Page 2

LOST IN THE POST

MAN AS A PARCEL.

Somewhere deep in the files of the British G.P.O. there is a note that must read something like this: — " One parcel: Grey trousers, brown coat, wearing no hat; lost in transit."

A writer in the Daily Express says: "I sent myself off as an express parcel from Holborn and got lost in the post." - Bearing a label addressed to himself at 8, Shoe Lane, the writer walked into the post office. " Excuse me," he said, " I am a parcel, and I want to post myself. The address is around my neck." Did that move the.girl behind the counter? It did not. "That will be sixpence, please," she said, "and another threepence for excess weight."

Having been stamped and numbered, the man was despatched to Shoe Lane forthwith, with a small messenger boy clinging hard to his arm.

Somehow in a crowd the messenger boy " dropped " his parcel—the man was lost in the post.

The narrative continues: "Having looked for my deliverer and failed to find him, I decided that I would be the parcel to deliver itself. When I reached Shoe Lane the messenger boy had not yet arrived. When he did he produced a form for me to s ig n —for a parcel that had been posted to me. But, he said, he had lost the parcel on the way, and so I could not sign for it. "Now the burning question is—having been lost in transit —am I, or am I not?

" A young Belgian arrived in London recently, having travelled by air mail as a parcel. The cost was only a little over half the passenger fare, and the time for the journey was the same as usual. The G.P.O. might find it a good idea to adopt the slogan, 'Travel by parcel post and see the world cheaply.'"