Some Valuable Advice on Posting Letters.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 28 January 1905, Page 8

Some Valuable Advice on Posting Letters.

It is amazing how careless we are generally as to the time at which we post letters. You write one when you feel inclined, and drop it into the letter-box when you remember it, forgetting that by doing so you may lie ruining a man’s daily work, or disturbing his night’s rest. If your letter is of the ordinary kind — "Dear Sir, 1 beg to acknowledge your letter,” and so on —it does not matter in the ’.east how, when or where you post it. Bv i

if it contains something of an exceptional nature, you should be very careful. Take love-letters, for instance; if you write half a dozen a day, of course, it does not in the least matter when you post them. But if you only write one daily, or, say, not more than two or three a week, the thing wants watching. A man should never receive a really moving love-letter in the morning. He is not in the humour for it, if he has to swallow his breakfast and catch a train. Besides, no man is improved for his daily duties if the sweet words go cooing through his brain all day long. He is sure to make a mistake, or add up a column wrongly, or forget something. A man should receive his daily love letter in the evening. It should be his nightly hobby. He would hasten home as early as possible, and not waste his time on the way, as so many do. He would have ample leisure to read it, and drink in every' word. In addition to this, having it? sweet purport burning within him, he would write a far more beautiful answer than if he had to do it at his office when nobody was looking. Unless you are a born humorist avoid sending to a clerk in receipt of weekly wages the urgent request for a “check” on Wednesday certain. Hit him on Friday or Saturday, if the deed must be done. Don’t worry a man drawing a miserable salary by dunning him in the middle of the month. Let the letter fa’l a day or so before he draws his salary. If some of these simple rules were observed by letter writers the miseries of life might be very much relieved. In sending subscriptions for the newspaper, however, any post will do. Every rule has exceptions.