A QUESTIONABLE INNOVATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 14

A QUESTIONABLE INNOVATION.

Sir,—Tour local as to the saving of expense at the Post Office by omitting to stamp the date of receipt upon letters is probably true. .You ore in error in saying' that up to the present "not'.a single complaint has been received of any letter-being delayed." The writer posted an important letter to his firm from Palnierston North at. 8.30 p.m. on Monday, February 14,' and travelled tie following day, calling at Pahiatua.'"' That letter reached .the firm at 9 'a.m. on Wednesday, February' 16, and the Post Offico authorities have the enveloga' but do not know where it . was between-' 9.30 p.m., February 1+ (the time and date stamped on it) and February 16'. Again, my wife posted a letter in Wellington on Friday, February 11, to 'some friends at Palmerston, with whom she was going to stay on the following, Tuesday. To her surprise -they .'were not at, the station to meet -her, 1 and as a matter of fact she reached their house , one whole day before the'letter was delivered. In both' instances' -no stamp of the date the letter was received was on the envelope, but ,'onjy .-;tho stamp of the' town where it; was. posted. l - The officials have no explanation-to'offer,,as there being no indication on the- .envelope as to when it reached its destination, they could not. offer any explanation. The new method may save expense, but there will be no means of bringing officials to book, over- delays in delivery of letters. —I am, etc., .' ' • , . ; . ' MEECATOR. [A number of other letters are in type, and will appear in Monday's issue.]