Disadvantages They Endure From Our Own Correspondent, Harbin, Sept. 30.
Though the Chinese Pos Office is remarkably efficient: at. Harbin and caters to the public in every way, the same cannot be said about the other Chinese post offices situated in towns located along the Chinese Eastern Railway: for instance the important frontier towns of Manchuli and Pogranitchnay. At each of these places the post office building is little better than a shanty located in some side street and not in the main thoroughfare and some distance away from the railway station. In neither places are there any pillar letter-boxes, hence when one has a letter to post it is necessary to go to the post office itself. At the present moment these offices are making a profit, which undoubtedly could be increased tenfold if some very necessary reforms were introduced.
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