POSTAL AFFAIR

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1930, Page 5

POSTAL AFFAIR

DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON December 29

Details of the difficulties encountered by the Post Office in the dead letter section show no fewer than twelve thousand letters and postcards were pile in the letter boxes last year without having any addresses while an additional twenty-three thousand were imperfectly or insufficiently addressed. The average number of letters posted per head of population last srear5 r ear was a hundred and one. A particularly harassing source of annoyance to the authorities is a libellously addressed envelope. A total of eighty-two, addressed in this manner, was intercepted last year. The fact that a large proportion the people post articles and then change their minds, is shown bv the number returned to senders by special request. Over, thirty-three thousand postal packets and 265 thousand other articles were returned in this way. Last year during the same period 3,210 letters addressed to persons or firms, transmission of correspondence to whom is prohibited, were intercepted and forward to dead letter offices. For the most part the letters were addressed to agents of art unions and lotteries in other countries. Borne were addressed to persons reputedly engaged in fraudulent businesses, ' - ' ! -*