POSTAL CHARGES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 3 March 1931, Page 8

POSTAL CHARGES.

PARCELS BRANCH SUPPERS. OTHER SECTIONS NOT AFFECTED. .. ■< .-■The paroels -branch or the (General JPofcfc Office j£ the only department that has suffered, so far, from the increased postal, charges. The mail room avd tjji6.: tolegtapb departmestlULve < i any difference, and the officers in charge say that they do not anticipate any falling otf in business. , - ■ .?' Two big mails arrived yesterday, ei: the Fordsdale, and kept the mail-roi>i& staff hard at work. in the xnAli- : room hatl not b<en affected 'by the increase in charges, '* said the superintendent, Mr T. C, evening, to a. representative of Thk Phebs. "It is too early yet to ioak£, comparisons, but sd far we have -not i notioid any abaoMaaJity. Very,,'few let- I tew and paper* -wef« jotted -wtyhiwrt the ifrrrtct &fiaoMfc r & jtta&p&'-fya )s&j direct mails ior England by 'tfce.JteW xciniua and the Coptic, and berg of newspapers ate going those boats., All bavfe thd no«fc<st jnttef affiled. K the public intended to kang baek one would naturally espeet thai some effect would have been «ea to. day.", V': ; -i J '( Volume of Butiaeaotmjjfck) "Business in the paycels brisk yesterday. morning,' but. in jthe afternoon there waif ing-off," said'the oftodr-iA-charge^ Friday and Saturday -trtqra buy days, tho s«op]« they could before reason it haa.tygg. %Qgs "but from orfcjniries l have 1 made&2 that it 1 -is probable that j.Df ' tha : big firms will make use 1 of. tto ?VariOUs delivery services in the 4a y*t< however, it is too early j considered opinion. In not think that tliq b«emu serious :for the branehv VTSe ptplto try. sorts ~of but oneejtboy realise that'we iaviMtep they bick Asked if there was ■ any ~ v likeߣoib@ in. thi^, decrease bi th«r. omeflu- feid that, on fte present would be ao, for sue**:.scwi fag mdirchant, ho. adds(li'>K((4 a" 1 huge 'number of. parcels 4 , oA QtOTn'Ato ,Kortaa% would about Miieh 10th. It "ei ooune, that the dnm in' "take, advantage' of ibo of tion iPtha /sattke'^ -rwWa., "fio iter .sieisinetf <di«pat6hfld fiim days, , of .to, effeot, If a»y ? on the # ■nesa;^/? f ; ■