Post Office Boxes.
We are glad to notice that it appears to be the intention of our PostmasterGeneral to introduce the penny postage into the colony. All honor to him if he succeeds. As he is anxious to popularise the service, we should like him to take into consideration the enormous rentals now charged at the country post offices for private boxes. The sum of one pound per year is out of all proportion to their value, when compared with town boxes, and we have always held that the use of private boxes in small towns would save the work in the office very materially. The time of one clerk continually dealing a pack of letters for every enquirer, would bn saved if there were sufficient boxes rented into which he would deal direct on the sorting of the mail. Time is not perhaps of so much consequence to the receiver of letters, as to justify such an outlay for the rent now demanded, but a lower rent would directly save the time of the postmaster's assistant. Thus a reduction in rent would mean increased revenue and a decreased expenditure in salaries. Surely it is worth considering ?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 12 March 1891, Page 2
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197Post Office Boxes. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 12 March 1891, Page 2
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