HOME LETTER-BOXES.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 337, 19 January 1937, Page 7

HOME LETTER-BOXES.

Facilitating Delivery Of , ? Correspondence. ' Is there a letter-box at the gate of ’ J your residence? If not, why not? jv Do you think of the lime and trouble | < such a small undertaking would save ; J Ihe postmen in the town*? Where j \ there is no box for him in which to v leave the correspondence and pap< is, V he has to unlatch the gate and walk * to th; house, most times having to J ring the •door’bell anti personally do- i * liver the mail. If everyone of the 881 residences j « in Stratford put. up a gatebox. there | J would be a saving of tim , est.ima.t- j j cd by the postmen at several hours j I every week .But not twenty-live per j , cent, of the houses have a 1 t terbox. ! ] 1 Circulars to Householders. “Once upon a time, staled Mr E. W. Boundy. postal supervisor at th? , Stratford office this morning to a ’ CeDtf.ral Press representative, “the ' Department insisted only on people ■ whose house was sixty-six feet from i the street froiftag., having letter- | , boxes, but now it is trying to bring ' all householders into line. With this in view, a system of circularising ■ people requesting an improvement in , this direction was instituted in ' Stratford. “So far, sixty-eight circulars have • been posted, but there are many j more to be delivered. Generally- J speaking, the provision of letter- j boxes in the town is satisfactory, but ! in the interests of everybody epn- | cerned, it would be advisable to | make it as uniform as possible.” I Will You Help? Following is the text of the courteous requ st of the Postal IXp-irt-ment to householders in connection! I with the ma.’.< > i • To faciliate the prompt delivery of letters to all parts of the postmen’s deliv ries, it is essential, states the circular recently issued from the Stratford office, that in every case where the house lies back some distance from the street a- letter-box j should be provided on the street- [ line. The number of residences m Ihe delivery is sicad’ly incr asing, and it is the desire of the Department that the delivery of correspondence should tontinue to b.j effected with the least possible delay, and with this object in view the Dopuriment w’’..*ld be glad if householder.-, •,”ou d cooperate by arranging for the erection of suitable letterboxes for the reception of correspondence.