To the Editor of the ""Norra-Caixa Datty News.
Str,—I shall be very thankful if you will kindly allow me a small space in your esteemed paper to air a grievance on the valuable help one gets from "express forwarding Although the Chinese Post Office is often blamed for alleged delays, I must say that parcels posted at Shanghai for Kaifeng never take more than six days, at the very most, to reach destination. I have often received parcels from Shanghai five days after posting.
This, however, does not seem sufficient to the particular forwarding agency I have in mind, which forwarded a parcel (Christma hamper) entrusted to it on December 19 (at Shanghai) and which 1 received here on December 31
The exorbitant sum paid for this mode of forwarding was over $13. How delightfully prompt and cheap!
Had a" boy" been sent up with the parcel in question, the above sum would almost have covered his travelling expenses.
Thave a good mind to establish myself as an "Ultra-Rapid Forwarding Agent" as, I am_ sure, Dame Fortune will be within my easy rench. Moreover, I shall have a decent chance of getting my "Christmas hamper" in time.
Enclosing my card, Tam, ete..
Tresor.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.