The Archive · 1901

A NEW YEAR'S GIFT

ath Jan, Wonpers will never cease! The British Post Office has gone in for progress and reform! For a lon, time past the sorting of the inward mail has had to be done at the Shanghai office by a short-handed and inadequate staff, in consequence which the mails' were never ready for distribution until several hours fter arrival at Shanghai, much to work was thrown entirely on the English clerk, who was' therefore compelled to work hard day and night without even the opportunity of changing his clothes.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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