LETTER RECEIVERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1040, 1 February 1911, Page 6

LETTER RECEIVERS.

ANTICIPATIONS NOT REALISED. Some two or three, months • ago the Chief Postmaster of Wellington issued ■circulars to householders calling attention to the mutual convenience which would result if metal ktter-receivere wero inserted in tho front doors. Houses without receivers or siots for tho receipt of mail matter detained ■ the postman a. niinuto or two. ■in each case, and ■ the aggregate time lost was, of course, considerable. When the appeal was made 1 to householders the Post Office went to the trouble of sending round samples of copper, brass, and painted metal receivers in_ nice designs, which , were to be snpplied- and fitted, at a minimum of cost. The outcome; howevcv,: has been dis--' couraging. / ; Out,, of-some 10,000 householders, the' Post" Office only received he--tween 500 and 600 applications, and these are'now bbirig furnished'with receivers under an arrangement with.'Messrs. C. and-A. Ocilin,' of : this city:" ' The-Chief' Postmaster is etill prepared to receive applications or. they may be forwarded to Messrs. Odlin, who are authorised by the Postmaster to attend to such orders.

The publicity given to the idea has had one good effect as many householders had fitted receivers to their doors on their own account. When it is realised that a great saving in time and money may, be effected' by adopting the simple expedient noted for the.receipt of letters and that the postman's whistle or "rat-, tat" will not mean a. scurrying to the; door, there will no doubt he a steady,. V demand for letter slot-plates.