To the Editor of the jour-Cutna Datcy News."
Si—During my temporary absence from Shanghai, my wife who resides ther me ter daily, in in" adjacent pillar-box, in river Some days I do not Micient time to catch the
receive this, bat the next day receive two letters with consecutive dates. A friend tells me he has frequently the same experience. shows that the pillar-box clearances are irregular. If the authority will suppress the Postal Union, and discharge a couple of hundred postmen, it may be possible to return to the efficient service which formerly existed. The trouble today with the Shanghai Post Ofice is, there are too. many post men, too little work, and too many agitators, Numerous 7 disorderly ostmen's strikes, avd polities, would seem to have put this!
*xogtlent, dene HEHEHE on Team, ete, Hankow, Feb, 14, 1928, To the Eiitor of the "Nowrn-Cuiwa Date Nuws.
Sim—My Chinese boy never pened to come back before 5 am, when I sent him to the central Post Office to post a parcel at two. The excuse always I went myself and tried to post a parcel.
To my astonishment I noticed that several of the public were kept waiting tly without attendance. Some five or six clerks made circle behind the counter One of them had a newspaper in his hand, and was discussing the article which appeared~in that paper.
I went to a clerk sitting at the next desk, who having a cigarette: between two fingers in his hand, simply cast a glance and Teplied to my inquiry word, "wait."
Needless to say I was kept wait-for two hours at the counter; before Tgot my receipt.
Ig the Chinese Post Office still under the control of foreigners? Have the foreign officers lost their controlling power over their subordinates? more than enough to turn the baby's bottle sour that the; Chinese Post Office is a member of the International Postal Union, Tam, ete.
Critic.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.