CITY POSTAL DELIVERY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 155, 26 March 1919, Page 8

CITY POSTAL DELIVERY

Sir.-May I ask, tough he medium of vcur valuable columns, why WcllinE tin vesUlontially, Ims but one del very a day? Chrirfchurchm*Jsan have Tied two deliveries fi.n.cc the end of January, and so. I believe, nave othei ?o™. yet Wcapilal «|y has o»e only Diirin* the war everybody natural!} mit up with inconveniences, but now jure J w mi?hr reasonably expect to .have (hi* Rcccnd' delivery granted ns agam.-l am, etc,

LEO. B. BUf'KERIDGE. 77 The Terrace, March 25. [The ahovo letter was referr* to to PostaV authorities, who «t. *«« «»a h tot.=oh the second'd-ilv <Mive.iy has not been restored in AVellin K ton !s that a. lanse number of letter-earners .«. bII in service with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. To carry out. two delimWly in am. rf Wellington oily and suburbs seno .U mm are ordinarily employed, tot at tb£ .l,i- time the letter-earryinß staff it is pointed, oat. is specialised *<* a ™ is ewntial that: men -nowed in it should hove a thorough knowl-;; *eot the t ieo-raphieal conditions. The second de.!iverv has been resumed in other S-eV because more carriers Monww to thos- pbces have returned from the rent t'i-' has Wn fflie cn=e m lon. Before rommnn duty earner* are entitled to take whatever annual leave to them during the time they have 'ten on active service, coiisennent v this has the effect of delay..,* siW tlv tha v-rstablishment of normal renditions. The Department is enxioro In re-lore the second delivery n WelJnuton, '.and will do so immediate y ajuffi,.ir, t number of men is oxailable-pos-rib"y within the next two or three months.]