POSTAL IRREGULARITIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1708, 16 June 1883, Page 3

POSTAL IRREGULA RITIES.

TO Till', J.DJU'OR. Sru, — I wouM a^k you thiongh your columns to I.nully place the following facts ljcfuio the Chief Postmaster ot Auckland. Dining my tiaveLs of late I, like ;i number of .settlers, have quietly awaited the anival of the subsidised mail. On June the 9th 1, with a numbei of others, awaited the sotting of the incoming mail. Ten minutes passed, 20 and 40 passed, v.et no l espouse fio.u the deliveiy window. I could not believe that tho whole time was occupied in soitiug the mail, of com si 1 , and what three othceis well up in their woik can do, and what they actually poifoun will always remain a Chinese puswlc to me. In this paiticulai case I have only one objection to state, and that is " As a eoinincrual tiavellei, am I to wait for my letteis because I have no box, w lnle the postmastu soifcs Ihe papers for all holders of pin ate boxes' It is a mailer of small moment to leMilcnUi, but in the case of tiavelleis it stultifies the spiut of the Pojl oilke Act; for this icason : bub-po->tmasteis ha\c not a vciy heavy onus on their .sliouldei.s, but on this very account they ouj^ht the moio readily to conlii mto the spuifc of the act. Tiairlto \ must not 1)0 looked at in the S'uno light as le^idents, who only have a diay oi a buggy in once a week to com ey then coi icsyoiidence, w hioli is piobably of no gi eat importance, whilst we have inalteis involving tliousanila of pounds delajcd in older that each piivate box holder may be supplied with his papers! 1 fail to see the excuse for delay. The Chief Pc-tmastei may give a reason for the papers being soited iiist, still I think he is so well up in country matters that my case will receive his attention. — lam, &0., Vigilant. Cambridge, Juno 15th.