DRESS OF POSTMEN

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 331, 19 September 1932, Page 3

DRESS OF POSTMEN

P.M.G.'s REFUSAL TO ALLOW OPEN-NECK SHIRTS London, Saturday. A request from the Union of Post Office Workers that postmen should be allowed in hot weather to wear open-necked shirts was refused by Sir Kingsley wood, the PostmasterGeneral. He considers that the proposed relaxation is neither suitable nor necessary. The official letter ran: — The Postmaster-General considers that to dispense with a tie and to leave unfastened to top button or stud of the shirt would be definitely incongruous and altogether out of keeping with the general appearance of uniform, even when a shirt such as you advocate was newly put on, and that the incongruity and untidy effect would rapidly increase with the wearing of the shirt. Smartness of appearance, which is generally associated in the public mind with efficiency, would, in the Postmaster-Generars opinion be endangered. It is the view of the Union of Post Office Workers that the country postman carrying a heavy bag along miles of hot roads would be just as good a servant of the public and just as much respected by them if he had a collar open at the neck.