Pictorial telegram forms bring in a handsome revenue to the Swedish Post Office. To make it more attractive, the proceeds—the charge of Gd extra — arc earmarked for tuberculosis sanatoria. and what is over goes to the general hospitals, which are nationalised. The Swedish postman who lifts the letters never handles them. Ho places a sack under the letter-box, turns a key, and the sack automatically locks itself to the box. Another turn and the bottom of the box opens, and the letters drop into the sack, Yet another turn, and the sack is locked and detached from the box, and cannot he opened except by a key in the sorting room.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1929, Page 3
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