EARLY CLEARING OF STREET POST BOXES TO CEASE
Because it is considered uneconomical the post office has advised that the early 6 a.m. clearing of street postal boxes at Whakatane is to cease from January 1 of next year. From that date there’ will be a trial period when boxes will be cleared once daily at 11 a.m. This Will include the box at Pohaturoa Rock, which will also be cleared at 6 a.m.
The early morning clearing of boxes was instituted when the express from Taneatua used to run to Auckland daily, all mail going by this train. When this service was cut down to thrice weekly arrangements were made for outgoing mails to leave Whakatane by service cars at 1 p.m., which arrived in Auckland the same day. With * this new arrangement the early clearing served no useful purpose as it now gives no advantage in the delivery of mail over the 11 a.m. clearance, except perhaps, for local delivery to nearby centres. In the past few months a count has been kept of the number of letters collected at 6 a.m. and it is now so small that the work is considered uneconomical.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 72, 5 December 1949, Page 5
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196EARLY CLEARING OF STREET POST BOXES TO CEASE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 72, 5 December 1949, Page 5
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