POSTAL DELIVERIES

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24914, 29 June 1946, Page 5

POSTAL DELIVERIES

Sir, —Why cannot residents of Fendalton, in the Idris road, Fendalton road area, have letters delivered before 12.30 p.m., or, very often, 1 p.m.? It is impossible to reply to a letter from the North Island mail on the day a letter is received. Shortage of staff may be blamed, but it seems beyond all reason why we cannot get our mail regularly and promptly delivered. Further, is there a shortage of whistles for the postmen? Ours never blows and we do not know whether he is in our neighbourhood or not. Regarding complaints about correspondence to or from Dunedin, I, too, have had the same experience as “X-Civil Servant” and “R.C.” Having sent stamps to Dunedin in payment for something last Thursday, June 20, I received a reply only today saying it was received in Dunedin on Monday, June 24.—Yours, etc., INEFFICIENCY.

June 27, 1946. [The Chief Postmaster says: “As postmen resume from national service and displace postwomen, reorganisation of the deliveries to a pre-war basis is effected. It is inevitable that some householders situated on the early portion of postwomen’s deliveries will, as a result of the rearrangement. be served on a later portion of the larger postmen’s deliveries. Conversely, the rearrangement will, in other cases, result in earlier delivery. Postmen's walks are arranged to give the earliest possible delivery to the greatest number of residents.”]