POST-OFFICE IRREGULARITIES.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 586, 27 November 1869, Page 2

POST-OFFICE IRREGULARITIES.

(To the Editor of the West-port Times.) Sib, —Being a stranger to your post-office regulations in these colonies, I do not properly understand when or from whom I may seek an explanation of the way in which my letters have been detained in the Westport Post-office, but, from your kind attention to our wants in other respects, I venture to lay before you, Sir, and the public, a few facts respecting the way in which I have been treated at that office, and by which I am injured in a kind of way that would not be permitted in other places. Some time ago—not, I believe, with our present Post-master, but when the Post-office was in another part of the town —through a letter being detained I lost .£3O in a business transaction. I let that pass through not understanding how to act in such a case, although I thought it rather a smart price to pay for another man's negligence.

I did hope that by calling regularly at the Post-office myself, and pressing my enquiry—as I have sometimes myBelf thought, very warmly—to prevent a recurrence of the like again, and on yesterday I received a letter from New Plymouth, North Island, the post mark of that place bearing date July 26th, and of Westport, July 29th. Now I have regularly called once a fortnight during these months at the Westport Post-office, and the invariable reply was "Nothing for you." I believe at last they got to know me so well that they did not consider it necessary to look whether there was or not. At least, I have often came away under that impression. Now, Sir, being a foreigner I do not properly understand how these things might be remedied, but this I do know, that in no other country that I have seen would they be suffered to continue long. This letter was of importance to me and ought to have been replied to, at furthest, early in last August. It is now useless. Hoping you will find room for this in your columns and excuse my troubling you, —I am, yours respectfully, G-OTTLEIB EOCK. Caledonian Terrace.