Christmas Mail and Hangchow's Obduracy A local news agency calls attention to the amount of work entailed on the Chinese Post Office by the Christmas traffic, and mentions that the postal authorities have just handled the first mail to arrive from the British Isles since the closing of the British Post Office.
Apparently it is not the Christmas mail alone which is keeping the postal officials so fully employed. For one thing they are faced with the peculiar situation arising out of the action of the Chekiang authorities in forbidding residents there from observing the increased postal rates. Letters from Hangchow and other places in Chekiang are, as a result of the order in question, arriving in Shanghai bearing insufficient postage, and as a consequence the Post Office here is imposing the customary "fines" upon recipients.
This action on the part of the local Post Office has now been the subject of a protest from the Chinese Newspaper Association, which, pointing out the inconvenience caused through the Shanghai office failing to heed the Chekiang order, calls for a return of all the "fines" imposed.
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