HUMAN PARCELS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1931, Page 22

HUMAN PARCELS

Somewhere deep in - the files of the British- G.P.O. \ there is a note that must read something like this: — "One parcel:- Grey • trousers, brown coat, wearing no hat; lost in transit." A writer, in the ''Daily Express" •says;:— •-' ;•' -' •"I sent myself off as an express parcel from Holborn and got lost in the post." Bearing a'label addressed to himself, at B,^ Shoo lane, the writer walked into the post office. "Excuse me," he said, "I am a parcel, and! want'to post myself. The address is around my heck." Did that move the girl behind the counter? It did not. "That will be sixpence, please," she said, "and an? other threepence for ejecess weight." Having been stamped and numbered, the man .was dispatched to Shoe lane forthwith, with a.small messenger boy clinging to his arm. •■• Soinfhow in-a crowd the messenger

boy "dropped" his parcel—the man was lost in the post. : The narrative continues: —"Having looked for my deliverer and failed to find him, I decided that I would be the first parcel to deliver itself. When I. reached Shoe lane the messenger boy had not yet arrived. When he did he produced a form for mo to sign—fOT a parcel that had been posted to me. But, ho said, he had lost the parcel on the way, and so I could not sign for it. ■-.■.. "Now, the burning question- is— having been lost in transit—am I, or am I not? . . 7 . , ■; . "A young Belgian arrived in London recently, having travelled by air mail as a parcel. The cost was only a little over half the passenger fare, and the time for ti\e journey, was the same as usual. The G.P.O. might find it a good idea.to adopt the slogan: Travel by parcel post and see the world cheaply." ... .