Farms Should Be Named To Help The Postal Deliveries
A six months trial by the Post Office of having rural mail delivery boxes numbered has proved unsatisfactory. Reports have been received by Federated Farmers from the Postmaster-General that the trial, on one of the deliveries at Morrinsville, showed that the quantity of mail bearing the box number allotted was only about 5 per cent of the total. In several cases letters were received at the Morrinsville P.O. with a box number but without reference to a rural delivery and that caused confusion with private urban boxes. It was found, too, that the was unwieldly owing to the necessity for keeping additional records and the impracticability of maintaining any semblance of numerical sequence.
The Postmaster-General has suggested to the federation that farmers would improve the present position by naming their properties and having that name shown in their postal address. Where that had been' done it had proved satisfactory.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 65, 16 March 1949, Page 5
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158Farms Should Be Named To Help The Postal Deliveries Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 65, 16 March 1949, Page 5
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