MAIL BOX FOR EACH HOUSE.
■ NEW POSTAL IDEA. • The postal authorities are now ascertaining as nearly as possible the minimum cost for fitting letter-boxes into the front doors of residences and business places to facilitate the delivery of mail'and telegraph matter. It is intended to arrange, if possible, for a standard size of box, and then to approach the public with the request that they should be so provided. As the rules stand at present, a lettercarrier may not; pus'h a letter under n door if thoro bo no answer to his knock. He has to carry it away, and bring it out again on his next round. In addition to not having delivered the letter, the postman thus consumes a good deal nf his time waiting for an answer to his knock. In tlio case of tolegrams (if there is no answer) the messenger is required to fill in a form, and place it under the door, intimating that a telogram awaits the addressee a't tho office. This laboured method of delivery would be done away with if everyone had a. letter-box, and it is the Department's intention that such shall be the case in the near future. Tt io understood that tho Department will be able to supply letterboxes at a cost of two or threq shillings.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 855, 29 June 1910, Page 4
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219MAIL BOX FOR EACH HOUSE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 855, 29 June 1910, Page 4
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