A COMPLAINT.

Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 256, 3 September 1867, Page 2

A COMPLAINT.

(To the Editor of the Grey River Argus.) Sir— May I be permitted, through the medium of your valuable paper to draw the public attention to the incivility and want of the commonest courtesy that is displayed every day at the post office. I, in common with many other parties coming down from up-country, am entrusted with orders for letters, &c, in town. We go to the post office, knock at the window, and be particularly careful with our orders that we tap at the proper window (alphal e'ically aron^ed), behold, after tapping seven or eight and in most cases a dozen time?, the window is lifted two or three inches, just sufficiently to receive your missive or. order to de'iver bearer any letters, cic, addressed so and so. Perhaps the expectant may be in t. 1 • jreatest state of suspense for a letter which may convey the tidings of the death of a beloved mother, from whom he received his first breath ; the last dying wish of a fond brother or sister; or the benediction of a devoted and attached father ; or maybe some letter of the greatest importance, to a miner or businessman; the overworked gentleman at our model post office, looks over three or ■ four letters, .auswers "nothing," and down goes the window with a bang, and the poor unfortunate outside has only one alternative, to submit and go his way, assured within v himself that a certain letter or letters are still inside if properly looked, for. In other cases, and their name are legion, numerous small and impertinent questions are put' in an imperious and inse Jang manner not at all'in keeping with the character or institution qf a public post office such as the Greymouth. and other places on the coast ; aud indeed J may say boldly, and without fear of contradiction state, except from the hardworked gentlemen referred to that any such conduct as the public have to submit to here would uot be tolerated for a day in any part of the United Kingdom, or even in other parts of the coast ; however, it will answer all the purposes T have in vie;y if. I can by this note draw the public attention so far that what I in common with hundreds'of up-country people complain of will be remedied, and that common civility will be retailed at the window at least commensurate with the overtasked labor imposed on the trio now composing the staff of our Greynioiitli post office, and whenever a letter or letters are applied for a diligent sea/eh for the same shall be made, such as "will satisfy the mutual feelings of a man doing his duty as a public officer inside the post office and the ' person enquiring without. 1 am, &c. * A Storekeeper. Greymouth, August 31, 1867.