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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 668, 29 March 1869, Page 2

CtmiOSITIES OP THE POST-OFFICE. —Thfl Blind Letter Post Office is the receptacle for all illegible, mis-spelt, mis-directed, or insufficiently addressed letters or packets, Here the clerk, or clerks, selected from amongst the most experienced officers, guess at what ordinary intelligence would really denominate insoluble riddles. Large numbers of letters ars posted daily with supei'scriptions which the sorters cannot decipher, and which the great majority of people would not be able to read. Others, again, are received with perhaps only the name of some small village, the writers thinking it a work of supererogation to add •some neighboring town or c\eu a count)". Numberless, for instance, are the letters bearing such addresses as " John Smith, gardener, JTiowerdalo*" Circulars by the thousand are posted in London, and other luge towns without hesitancy, and with the greatest confidence in the " final psr* severance" principle of the Post-office people, with addresses not more explicit than the foregoing. Letters addressed as follows, meant for the eye of royalty, would not be impeded in their progress in any way : " JLeen Vic Tory at Winser Ca« sel," and "Mrs Prince Albert Bahuory Castle Scotland," and another, " Miss Quene Victoria of England," but would go to Windsor Castle and Balmoral without tail: while the following, posted in Lon* don at the breaking out of the Polish in* surrection, would fiud its way to St. Peters* burgh as fast as packet could carry it) 'To the King of Hushes Feoren, with •peed."— Our Own fireside.