THE GIFT SEASON.
LETTER PROBLEM
Hundreds of Stray Packets
Found.
In the season of goodwill, when
the pleasant habit of exchanging presents is at its height, the Post Office prepares for a rush and prides itself on the prompt delivery of Thousandt of these tokens. At the same time experience prompts it to nearly double the staff of the Dead Letter Office in Wellington, because many packets, a comparatively small proportion of the enormous number of Christmas gift postings”, will be insufficiently or wrongly addressed, and the Dead Letter Office in Wellington is the only section of the department authorised to opeq communications for the purpose of ascertaining any further detail which may lead to delivery or return to the sender. Nearly every newspaper in New Zealand published just before the Christmas shopping rush a reminder that the Post Office does not object to packages at the cheap rates in eluding a clear indication of the sender’s name and address. But
despite this precaution, the Dead Letter Office became busy as soon as Christmas presents began to circulate. o f packages were put into the post to addresses which either did not exist or were inadequate. In these cases the packages came promptly to the De-ad Letter Office, where the strengthened staff was able to act promptly, and if sufficient information wat available to return them to the senders. However, when the end of the busy time came the office shelves held over a thousand packages of handkerchiefs and similar small presents wrongly addressed and showing such vague indications of origin as “From Bill.”
These can neither be delivered nor returned to the senders. There were over 900 larger parcels similarly derelict with no chance of delivery. However, the Dead Letter Office staff had the satisfaction of finding within various packages sufficient information to return to the senders at least 25 ptr cent, of those which came back from, the postman after a vain search for the intended recipients.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 2
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329THE GIFT SEASON. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 2
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