LETTER CARRIERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3803, 3 May 1875, Page 3

LETTER CARRIERS.

To the Editor. SifV-The reply to “Grif” is contemptible. Duty is a weapon with two edges : it implies that the person employed in the honorable and responsible labor of letter-delivering shall perform his part of the business with equity. How stands the case at present in Dunedin ? Three experienced letter-carriers have left voluntarily, or ate about to leave, after hrving served the public faithfully and efficiently for a number of years, and the sole reason for this is that they are overworked and misexably paid. Consider, four letter-carriers for the whole of Dunedin, and two deliveries per day over every street, hill, and gully! How is it that they issue forth with their-first delivery as late as leu o clock a.m. ? The only reason that can be gi/eu is that they aie made sorters within the office a work not their duty at all; or is it a necessary or safe work for letter carriers to be delivering letters at night, and reading addresses by the lamp posts? The public are grumbling now, but when fresh men are put on as substitutes for the experienced who have given notice to depart, they will have more reason than at present. Ihe authorities will find that money cannot buy their experience, and that a retaining of their services with reasonable hours and better remuneration would Jiave been good economy. As these men know the city, this ought to be their credentials of the highest value for sorters within the office at advanced salaries. With what consistency could the Premier talk of the prosperity of New Zealand when he is confronted with the fact that in the first city of the Colony letter carriers cannot get equitably paid for responsible work and labor done.—l am, &c., Princes street. Dunedin, May 3.