DETECTIVES WANTED
FOR POST OFFICE SERVICE READING ADDRESSES Post office officials need to be Sherlock Holmes’s according to the Post-master-General of New South Wales, Mr. Gibson. Speaking of the difficulties the officials had in reading addresses, he said that each year 3,000,000 letters were posted, the addresses on which were like prescriptions that might have been written by Sir Neville Howse. These letters contained many thousands of pounds, some of which was never returned. The postal officials handled 14,000 letters each year that did not even have a scratch of the pen on the envelopes, and in which was about £2,000 that the department kept. It could be seen, therefore, that the postal officials were not always to blame for delays and the loss of letters.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 9
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126DETECTIVES WANTED Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 85, 1 July 1927, Page 9
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