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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4447, 31 July 1922, Page 1

Although the Postal Department sometimes takes 30-odd years to deliver a letter, it is not always tn blame, and it is immensely proud of itself when it can trace tne -mistake to the complainant himself, (says the Melbourne Age). In the annual repor* of the Postmaster-General tabled in the House Of Representatives a number of; such cases are gleefully printed as being typical of the sort of complaint a faultless Department has to waste its valuable time investigating. A lady last year reported that a parcel she was expecting had failed to turn ; up. There was naturally a sensation among postal officials that su,ch an astounding thing should have occurred, and inquiries were frantically set on foot. The parcel, however, never turned up, but it wasn’t the Department’s fault. The lady had been infofimed by c. spirit at a seance that she was about to receive a parcek and when i® didn’t turn up she, of course, blamed tne Post Office.. The soulless, unbelieving Department, on the contrary, blamed the spirit for - neglecting to post the article, and to this day refuses to do otherwise. On another occason an infuriated gentleman, prob-, ably with a purple face and bulging eyes, complained that, a wire he Hal sent had never been delivered. That mystery was cleared up when it was found that the gentleman in question had addressed the wire to himself at his own club, and signed >t with the name of the person he was sending it to.