POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2558, 29 April 1871, Page 2

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

To the Editor. Sir, —I have to bring before the notice of the public, through your column % the flagrant injustice that is practised towards newsvendors of this City, respecting the delivery of their parcels containing magazines and newspapers. The P. 0. Company arc paid an expensive freight for the purpose of carrying them right through, and to be delivered in Dunedin as soon as the English mails through the Post Oflice. On their anival at Port Chalmers, they place them in lighters instead of placing them on board the first steamer leaving for Dunedin, and are not received by the imp rter until a week or so has el psed. When they arrive they are worthless, and can only bo sold for waste paper, which entails a very serious loss, as it is well known tin sale of newspapers and magazines depon Is solely upon num diato receipt and ib spatch. 1 will not here relate the innumerable complaints from subscribers that have to be put up with, or the serious injury which our business receives. Several instances have occurred personal'-y, all of which have been attended with heavy losses. The agents promise all sorts of remedies, none of which are fulfilled, The question I have to put to them is, Why don’t they give a universal order to the captains of their steamers to place all newspaper and magazine parcels or cases that arrive by Suez or any other mail on hoard of the fir.it Port steamer leaving for Dunedin, immediately a r ter their arrival at Pet 0; aimers? This would remedy the evil, and no loss or trouble would en-ue to the agents. I have adopted your columns as a last n source of waking those up who are the cause of thi< negligence, and hope it will have the desired effect. I am, Ac., JITSTICE. Dune-lin, April 29.