ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 645, 19 June 1852, Page 3

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the New Zealandsii. Sir,— Every circumstance exposing maladministration, or tending to prove some radical defect in the regulution of our Leviathan Office, in St. Martins-Ie Grand calls for exposure ; I therefore make no apology for intruding on your valuable spnce. I would not willingly increase the odium that is already attached to the General Post Office, as connected with these colonies ; nor do I wirli merely to raise my voice to excite sympathy as an individual sufferer, as my context will prove, 1 have been for the last six months expecting letters of great importance, confident that something extraordinary must have occurred among my friends to have occasioned such delay. But no neglect rested with them, for, lo ! by the Gwalwr I receive a letter from Colonel Rlaberly stating that " there is a letter, No. 43,376, at this office, directed to you, which cannot be forwarded until the postage, Is. lOd., be paid; if, therefore, you will desire one of your correspondents to call at the Inland Department of this office, between the hours of ten and four, and pay the above postage, the letter will I be forwarded according to address." Thus cnusing a : further delay often mi.nths before I can receive that nud other letters which will have accumulated ere then. As I said before, the number of the letter will prove this is no individual case. Suppose then, there are sixty thousand persons having communications thus delayed, I think I do not exaggerate when I suppose that to ten thousand of these those letters were of the last moment. Thus, ten thousand are rendered miserable by the stupidity or carelessness of those who hold in their power the means ol diffusing happiness or misery. 1 have, in conclusion, only one question to ask : — How did these letters find themselves in the Post-Office, if the local Post-master, who is a responsible agent, did \ not undertake to convey them to their destination 1 M. I enclose my caul, according to your rule, and beg you will insert this in your next publication. Aucklond, June 16, 1852.