Parcels Undelivered
(CHRISTINE COLE’S documentary on the Returned Letter Office, Dead Letter, revealed, I thought, a nice feeling for aura] texture. It began arrestingly with the barking of the auctioneer at the Post Office’s annual sale of un--deliverable parcels. "One butcher’s knife and steel, one teddy bear, pairs gents’ underpants, upper and lower dentures-" then dropped several decibels to the decorous level of life in the Returned Letter Office, The choice of topic was a good one, since there’s satisfaction about getting acquainted with something that has existed, an unknown quantity, on one’s very doorstep. And, whether this was a result of good editing, the commeére’s ease-inducing manner, or proof of the high 1.Q.’s of R.L.O. employees, the persons interviewed were more fluent than is often the case; and the less cynical or the more recently hired responded happily to hints for "human interest." .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 11
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144Parcels Undelivered New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 11
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