To the Editor of the Nonrm-Curwa Datty News, 'Su—Three or four letters have appeared in your esteemed columns complaining about postal delay' May I not add my own case to this list of complainants?
Yesterday I received a letter from! South Gate, Shanghai, the pos marks on which prove beyond shadow of a doubt that the said etter was mailed on August 19 but not delivered till August 28, Five days for a local: letter to reach its destination! It does not take much imagination to see the long and cusuble delay involved in the'
very of this letter, it, the Post Office is rot a private enterprise but a public service and, being a servant of the! the duty -of the Post with the greatest possible despatch. If it fails to do so in any particular stance, it has not only done a needless' injury to the individual concerned but it hay also failed in fits duty to the community as a whole, and every other individual the egmmunity which the Post [Office serves is liable to be the next jured by its delays mails. Therefore the. system of operating the Post Office must be such as to ensure the least possible delay consistent with accuracy in the delivery of mails id to make it possible to trace any! delay (if any delay does occur) to the very bottom with the view of fireling out the employees that are responsible for the delay.
I west the postal authorities will not take it unkindly that I have made this complaint in the comins of a newspaper. I feel that it is! my duty to do so and that by call: ng {heixaitention to the above incluent assisting the Postal Adminis-leates to Toner tare eBicent ice {0 this community ising ways and means of avoiding such regrettable delays as your other correspondents and I myself have complained about, I am,' ete,
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