MAIL DELIVERIES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 4

MAIL DELIVERIES.

The. speedy delivery -of mails to business people;is/a, problem ever agitating postal officials, and the local, officers of the postal service,are quite alive,to.the responsibility placed on them in this respect., There may be occasional.'lapses but as a' rule dispatcli is prompt and ■speedy. .It is, a little surprising, therethat no attempt has .'been made to expedite the delivery l of the daily mail from the south," The procedure followed with this, mail-; is: to place it -on the steamer at. Lyttelton and sort it into the private boxes, or for delivery by the carriers, on arrival at: Wellington. Every effort is; mado under ■ these conditions to ensurp a prompt delivory.but'shouid the mail boat be-delayed by rough weather, or; should the weekly inward Australian mail.: arrive about the same: time, as hot infrequently. people do not get.their letters-on their first call at the as they< expect to, and there is:some grumbling; in consequence. This .delay, Viive, understand,, could, be redubed to;a .miniraum by providing, for the sorting of tbe southern mails during the 'trip .from Xyttelton'.io Wellington, ■'and'jpwe versa...This would enable the local; officials toi place the letters into the private boxes immediately after their arrival hero, ..and would save-the time spent'in sorting, after arrival. , This procedure, l we. bolieve,. is followed on : the principal -mail • trains withi much satisfa'ctipn to tho-public, and if similar kr-rangements-can be-made<)n- the ferry steamers :betwcen: -Wellingtoni and. Lyttelton it lead to a material improvement in ensuring tho : early; delivery, of the mail daily to business ■ : ,' "