TIE HUNTLY HESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1915. Postal Packets to Men at the Front.
FROM time to time, complaints have been made from men at the Front, that postal packets addressed to them have been delayed in delivery, or have not been delivered at all. and it would appear that the complaints are only too well founded.
We have it on the best authority that one man, who is now in hospital in Auckland, received only one letter while at the Front although dozens had been sent to him.
Another received two parcels, the one sent two months earlier being received a fortnight later.
Instances of this sort could be multiplied ad. lib., and even when every allowance is made for a certain amount of confusion inevitable in war-time, there is still plenty of room left for complaint by the men and their relatives.
It is hard on all parties, because it causes with the relatives left behind, an uneasy feeling that something serious must have gone wrong with the man at the Front, and the man at the Front feels that to some extent he is being neglected. He is also bereft of the little personal comforts which are frequently sent by relatives. We have no hesitation in saying that things are much worse with regard to this matter, than they ought to be. Apparently the trouble is caused by the bad organisation of the postal department of the Forces. If, instead of putting such matters into the hands of soldiers, the authorities would take some of our undoubtedly efficient post office officials, and send a retired postmaster to oversee affairs, instead of an ex-Minister, who probably knows nothing about the actual working of a post-office, the trouble would be speedily removed. It will be agreed that this is a matter whicti could be easily and should be speedily remedied, and that agitation should be kept up until the authorities do the right thing by our soldiers and their relatives.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 26 November 1915, Page 2
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336TIE HUNTLY HESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT 1 P.M. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1915. Postal Packets to Men at the Front. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 4, 26 November 1915, Page 2
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