ADDRESS YOUR LETTERS CORRECTLY.

Evening Star, Issue 3816, 18 May 1875, Page 2

ADDRESS YOUR LETTERS CORRECTLY.

To the Editor. Sib, Numerous and just complaints bars been made for a length of tme in reference to late delivery of letters, resulting in the sever! but merited article in your morning contemporary of Monday. In order to more skilful organisation of the nfcies in the matter of letter d&ivwW the saasrißrarStfjSsss

possible to number the houses In Dunedin at present, unless in Princes street and George street to the White H«rse Hotel. This will incontestibly prove that a fresh carrier must leam every lane, right-of-way, nook, and comer from actual experience as the principal qualification for the work, and which the late resigned letter carriers had to acquire before they became qualified for their duties. The postal authorities, owing to the want of administrative power, reward the responsible duties of a letter carrier with a salary of about two guineas per week. Now, sir, these me i, without doubt, cai.y important business letters and letters With large sums of money enclosed daily, and the authorities virtually tempt the poverty of the letter canler by such an unfair remuneration. This ought to be protested against as much as the late deliveiy of letters. But the public, either ignorantly or thoughtlessly, address letters to Dunedin, George street, Cumberland street, or any of the streets two miles in length, and expect their letters delivered at nine a.m. and two p.m., as if the jaded carrier had no other letter to deliver, and ransack every lane and right-of-way in a street of two miles in length to find the owner. How easy to avoid this by addressing to near any conspicuous object, such as a church, mill, store, hotel, bridge, &c,, or between the streets crossing at right angles. There is no excuse for any citizen being careless in this particular, and if their memory does not retain their duty, they justly deserve that their letters should find their way to the dead-letter office. —1 am, &c., _ Progress, Dunedin, May 18.