The Government itself must be more flexible in ite methods and do as well as talk. One way la to provide greater postal facilities, and more correctly informed postal staff.
In February I asked a friend to send out some seeds by the Siberian parcels post. He wrote that he hai no end of trouble to get the parcel posted. Yet he lived within a few miles of the Bank of England and had two daughters in the London Post Office. A few weeks ago my son wrote: "The Post Office say they cannot guarantee the delivery of books in Ohina, so you will have to wait." How often have we had this phrase written out to China? I replied to my son, saying, I was not aware that the Post Office guaranteed to deliver letters oven in Britain unless they were registered, and suggested that the phrase ought to have a decent burial after 80 long a period of service.
Then again parcels ought to he missible in longer lengths than 1 Union limit. In_ this respect China is far ahead of Britain, for although the length limit is printed on their schedules, it is the practice of the post office to take longer parcels at a little higher rate. I know silk and satin dea'- ers in the interior, where transit is unsatisfactory, get these long rolls sent by parcels post.
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