CORRESPONDENCE.
RURAL POSTAL ACCOMMODATION. To the Editor of tiik " Evening Mail." Sir— You have permitted me to pronounce a eulogy on your charming little retreat, will you kindly allow me to air a grievance? I have been passing a little time with a new settler in this higher latitude, and as my duties relate to the pen rather than to the plough I have been made painfully sensible of a sad evil closely connected with my work. 1 refer to the postal accommodation. It appears that the Post Office here is the railway station, and it is only when the station clerk happens to be in his office that letters can be either received or delivered. This is more primitive than pleasant. I know of no such barbarism in the most remote village of England. At least one of the shops might be utilised as a Post Office, where a letter might be had or posted when one chanced to be in the neighborhood. It is these comparatively little things which tend to deter cultured Englishmen from coming to enjoy your exquisite climate. The game ceases to be worth the candle. — I am, &c , Wakefield, March 25, 1879.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 73, 26 March 1879, Page 2
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