Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 111, 9 March 1893, Page 2

Correspondence

THE POSTAL 11ECE1VING BOX. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE STAH. Siu, — Recently I noticed some correspondence in your paper complaining that the postal box had been removed from the Borough Council chambers to tho Cash Exchange store, and suggesting that it should either be replaced or another one affixed to a verandah post iv the vicinity. I was in hope that the suggestion would have been adopted, but apparently no action has been taken in the matter. It is to me most unaccountable that the box should have been removed from a position which rendered it available to nineteen places of business, all situated within a stone's throw of it, to an oui-of-the-way locality where it is now of use to less than half a dozen. Doubtless the box near Mr Carthew's will collect double tho number of letters it has hitherto done, because it will now take most of thoao which would have gone into tho box at the Borough oftiee hail it been allowed to romain. As an instance of this 1 may say that before o o'clock yesterday, that is to say, three quarters of an hour before tho box was cleared, it was so full that letters could have been removed with the fingers, and had to be pressed down to make room for others. This you will readily see is a very serious matter, and the loss of time to business men in travelling backwards and forwards is still more serious. I am, etc., Commercial.