“CASUALTY WARD.”
i WORK IN WELLINGTON MAILROOM PATCHING UP POSTAL PARCELS. ■ An interesting s,pot in the busy mail room at Wellington is “casualty •ward,” where flimsily packed parcels .and letters whose wea’th of Christmas . feeling in manuscript are too much for their envelopes are patched up and sent on their'way. A handker- " chief, a scent. s,achet, and a “fat” letter may be too much' for a thin blue envelope, and a rbund cake of soap . sometimes escapes from its lashings. Such bits of parcels'are all reassembled and securely packed. One of the chief banes of the busy sorters is //: the. “window” envelope, which .saves the trouble of typing an addressed en- . velope. The glazed transparent paper to be held at a certain angle beforc the address can be.seen, and the back pressed into contact with the . window. Them the lower part o? the ; address frequently slips below the ' visible opening, and the letter has to be smartjy tapped on the side before ?it appears. To 'the most expert sorters. who can do a letter -a second, "window” envelopes mean a vexatious -.loss of time during the Christmas rush. ■ ! .
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4922, 6 January 1926, Page 3
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188“CASUALTY WARD.” Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4922, 6 January 1926, Page 3
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